Barry WhiteHat

Very cracked. Here’s a WIP list of important ZK and CG things that Barry is inventor, co-inventor, or major supporter of:

• Semaphore
• RLN
• UniRep
• MACI
  • Vitalik originally proposed here
  • But Barry did the first implementation and PSE supports the current production instance
• zk-Rollups
  • The primary method by which Ethereum will scale to do any interesting computation, and the only PMF that applied ZK has found (so far)
• zkEVMs
  • Rolling up an entire EVM inside a ZK proof, absolute madness at the time but actually became a reality
  • PSE supports the main open-source Type-1 zkEVM implementation
    • I believe Scroll has based part of their implementation on this public good, as well as contributing back
• Baby jubjub
  • He was the person who suggested we switch to it for our NFC experiments, changing the course of our projects and what we could prove efficiently
• Lookup singularity
  • I initially thought this was the silliest idea ever LOL but I was completely wrong
  • Helped inspire Lasso, one of the most promising lookup tools available to ZK today
• PSE
  • Barry is the team lead of Privacy & Scaling Explorations, a group at the Ethereum Foundation