The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

by Timothy C. May

Private coins extension with VE [paper]

One of the existing problems of non-SNARK confidential assets protocols based on Pedersen commitments is the disability for coins receiver to decrypt an amount in the received payment. To achieve private decommitment, sender has to share the amount in a secure way with the receiver that often is not a part of a protocol. I’ve made some research and described the option to use private payments in a couple with verifiable encryption, that allows sender to share amount securely with receiver and convince the receiver that this amount corresponds to the committed one.

Check my article for more: Private coins extension with verifiable encryption

ZK-STARK explained [paper]

Still continuing my series of articles on advanced cryptographic protocols explained in simple words. Here is a paper about ZK-STARK protocol.

Enjoy! ZK-STARKs explained

RingCT explained [paper]

Sharing with you my paper with high-level overview of RingCT transactions in Monero. It covers the Pedersen commitments, Confidential assets, stealth addresses, ring signatures and the form of RingCT transaction.

Enjoy: RingCT explained

Bulletproof++ [paper]

I can celebrate today cause my paper in co-author with Mike Sokolov and Alex Kurbatov has been released. Enjoy by the link https://distributedlab.com/whitepaper/Bulletproofs-Construction-and-Examples.pdf.