This is the first article in a series of posts on Electron SDK. Electron SDK is an open source library that ships with multiple cryptographic primitives that are required by virtually all zk powered applications. Currently, developers have to spend months figuring out circuit implementations of various encryption, hashing, and…

ZKLC stands for Zero-Knowledge Light Clients. ZK Light Clients allow us to prove the validity of a transaction, by constructing a zk-proof of its validity which can then be cheaply verified by everyone. Verifiers no longer have to run full consensus. Let’s dive deeper into how we can construct zk-proofs…

Vitalik Buterin recently made a Reddit post about the limits of blockchain interoperability, and why cross-chain bridges won’t work. In this article, we attempt to assuage some of those concerns. Let’s dive deeper. Vitalik essentially makes a simple argument that standalone blockchains can survive short-term 51% attacks, while bridges would…

In Electron Protocol, while verifying a blockheader using a Light Client, we postulate that instead of verifying 1000’s signatures from all validators, we can verify signatures from a subset of all validators containing just 19 validators, provided that the 19 validator subset is selected randomly. Standard Setup — Verify all…

ZK-SNARKS rely on a certain encryption function called Homomorphic encryption. I believe it’s important to understand the mathematical properties of this particular operator to truly understand ZK-SNARKS and hence I decided to prepare this document. Let us dive deeper. Definition:-

In this article, we will discuss a key piece of Electron Protocol’s Interoperability technology — Bidirectional Light Clients. BDLC enables a smart contract to verify transactions from a different blockchain, without additional trust assumptions. Let’s dive in. Consider that two cross-chain smart contracts are trying to communicate with each other. …

Dare: 6th June, 2021 To add comments for authors, read this whitepaper here Summary Blockchains of today are data silos that do not talk to each other. Applications on one blockchain cannot work with applications on another blockchain. This reduces liquidity and hinders the growth of the ecosystem. We present a…

Defining Interoperability: Consider two Ethereum blockchains E1 and E2. We assume them to be Ethereum-like to keep things simple in this discussion. …