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Omer Shlomovits
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CEO @ingonyama.com | High-speed, fancy cryptography.
Loves all languages; speaks only in math.
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🍫 New Snark Chocolate Episode

We sat down with Jay Prakash, Co-founder & CEO of Silence Labs, to talk:

🔐 Silent Shard: MPC-based key management
🧠 Silent Compute: private multiparty data processing
🏦 GTM focus: banks & financial institutions
🛠️ Roadmap to privacy-as-a-service

Links in first reply 👇
July 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Over the past year, we've worked with Cornami and seen exciting results on ZK primitives. In the blog we report 10x–100x speedup compared to NVIDIA GPUs.

Thanks to ICICLE’s modular backend design, we can easily plug in new compute and deliver speedups to users.
ICICLE just got a powerful new backend🧊

We’re partnering with Cornami to bring their FracTLcore compute fabric into the ICICLE cryptographic acceleration framework

The result is the ZPU, a new ICICLE-powered backend built to scale Zero-Knowledge Proof performance

www.ingonyama.com/post/ingonya...
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ICICLE just got a powerful new backend🧊

We’re partnering with Cornami to bring their FracTLcore compute fabric into the ICICLE cryptographic acceleration framework

The result is the ZPU, a new ICICLE-powered backend built to scale Zero-Knowledge Proof performance

www.ingonyama.com/post/ingonya...
May 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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🍁 Fresh from zkSummit 13 in Toronto:

Yuval Domb joined Ulrich Haböck from StarkWare to present:

Laurent STARKs

Laurent STARKs (formerly known as RC-STARKs) are the latest addition to the family of STARKs over the circle curve.

They operate over M31, and support standard FFT, IOP, and FRI.

Link⬇️
May 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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What's next? Emile Hreich already explored GPU acceleration in a semester project, based on @ingonyama.com's Icicle, since lattice crypto is basically linear algebra over rings. We have promising results, with more coming up soon.
May 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I'm happy to finally open-source lattirust, a library for lattice-based zero-knowledge/succinct arguments! Lattirust is somewhat like arkworks, but for lattices; and like lattigo, but for arguments.

github.com/lattirust
lattirust
Lattice zero-knowledge/succinct arguments, and more - lattirust
github.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Brewing Interoperability with Espresso Systems

The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is piping hot! ☕️

In this episode, we sat down with Ben Fisch, co-founder & CEO Espresso Systems, about building a fast confirmation layer for L2s.

🎧 Listen now:
🔽 Spotify (next post)
⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)
May 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ICICLE v4 will introduce Lattice based cryptography. ETA is one month from now. We will first support lattice based ZK (LaBRADOR, Greyhound, LatticeFold family) 1/2
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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This was a great conversation!
A fresh episode of Snark Chocolate just dropped! 🍫

We sat down with Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com — jazz musician, technologist, author, CTO, and general partner at
@blueyard.com

It’s a wide-ranging and inspiring conversation!

🎧 Don’t miss this one
🔽 Spotify link below
⏬ Apple Podcast in 3rd post
May 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Privacy. Storage. Identity. Sui’s Suite, Unpacked

The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is out! 🍫

We sat down with Deepak Maram from Mysten Labs to dive into SUI's cryptography-driven roadmap and products.

🎧 Listen now:
🔽 Spotify (next post)
⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)
April 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Good article about the new AI processing features being added to WhatsApp soon. www.wired.com/story/whatsa...
WhatsApp Is Gambling That It Can Add AI Features Without Compromising Privacy
WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats. But experts still see risks.
www.wired.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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ICICLE v3.8 also upgrades our accelerated hash functions.

Check out the throughput comparison against NVIDIA’s cuPQC.

Start here 👉 github.com/ingonyama-zk...
April 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Ingonyama at ICLR 2025! 🇸🇬

Our colleagues Tomer and Queenie are in Singapore this week, presenting cutting-edge research.

They will present:

Provable Watermark Extraction: Introducing zkDL++, a novel framework for provable AI.

Are you in Singapore and want to connect? Reach out and get in touch!
April 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! 🍫

We sat down with Anna Rose to talk about building
Zero Knowledge FM, ZK Summit, ZKV and ZK Hack 🔥

🎧 Listen now:
🔽 Spotify (next post)
⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)
April 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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ICICLE v3.7 is here 🧊

Implement high-speed cryptography protocols in Go with GPU acceleration via Apple Metal — fast, clean, client-side proving.

Now w/ native support for Goldilocks field✨

🎩 First to submit a research grant w/ Goldilocks arithmetic – double the reward

github.com/ingonyama-zk...
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Welcome to the Real World 😎

The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live!

This week, we sat down with dcbuilder.eth from World, to talk about building identity infrastructure for the age of AI

Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts with the links below 👇
April 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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We refreshed the Research Grants for 2025!

This update highlights 2 grant recipients we’re excited about — accelerating Threshold Encryption & Collaborative zk-SNARKs.

$100,000+ in grants for pushing the limits of cryptography performance with ICICLE.

Learn more:
www.ingonyama.com/post/ingonya...
April 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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BaseFold±: A Simple Improvement to BaseFold's Multilinear Polynomial Commitment Scheme using Point-Check

Another brilliant contribution by Yuval Domb.

Read more: hackmd.io/@Ingonyama/p...
BaseFold+- - HackMD
A Simple Improvement to BaseFold's Multilinear Polynomial Commitment Scheme
hackmd.io
April 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Aztec: Privacy by Design ☂️

The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is here! 🍫

This week, we sat down with Lisa Akselrod from Aztec Network, to unpack how they’re building a fully decentralized, privacy-first Layer 2

Spotify & Apple Podcasts links below!
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Hardware-Friendliness of HyperPlonk, Part 2

New blog drop: Our latest deep dive profiles Sumcheck on GPU using ICICLE — and uncovers one major bottleneck: memory access 🧠 📉

Why compute isn’t the problem — and what to do about it:

hackmd.io/@Ingonyama/H...
Hardware-Friendliness of HyperPlonk, Part 2 - HackMD
Sumcheck memory bound
hackmd.io
March 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Traveling to Sofia for ZKProof or @rwc.iacr.org?

Don’t miss @omershlomovits.bsky.social at ZK Hack!

He’ll present: The Current State of ZKP Hardware & Applications

Here's a sneak peek at ZK in gaming—running client-side on the same GPU, in parallel with game graphics 👀

Sign up below 👇
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ICICLE Goes Metal!

Introducing ICICLE v3.6, now with Metal backend support for blazing-fast cryptographic acceleration 🍎

This update also includes enhanced ICICLE sumcheck performance and an early version of lattice support.

Read more: medium.com/@ingonyama/i...
ICICLE Goes Metal: v3.6
Introducing ICICLE v3.6, bringing support for the Metal backend.
medium.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Big thanks to @ingonyamazk.bsky.social & zkVerify for coming as partners of our ZK Hack Meetup in Sofia!

If you're in town for @zkproof.org or @rwc.iacr.org , join us to mingle with other zk-enthusiasts & listen to (en)lightning talks on March 26 from 5PM!

(for registration link, check out below)
March 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Yuval Domb from @ingonyamazk.bsky.social published a paper introducing a novel perspective on modular reduction algorithms, presenting a Barrett-Montgomery duality and a more efficient algorithm, while showing how these methods can be interchangeably applied.
hackmd.io/@Ingonyama/B...
The Barrett-Montgomery duality - HackMD
A new multi-precision modular reduction scheme with only n^2+1 digit multiplications!
hackmd.io
March 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Dear audience, my insight for you today is that ZK will be very, very big.
🔔 Time for #ZKMeshMini, join us as we unpack the top developments from this past week in the zk-space.

featuring @ingonyamazk.bsky.social, Primus Labs, Ariel Gabizon, Liam Eagen, @xyz-pierre.bsky.social, PSE & zkSecurity

🧵👇
March 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM