12-22-2024 
Xiaohui Liu
Author
Xiaohui Liu is the founder and CEO of sCrypt Inc., a company dedicated to providing integrated on-chain smart contracting solutions on BSV. Previously, he was a co-founder and the Chief Scientist at blockchain startup ContentBox. Before that, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook in the Connectivity Lab, conducting fundamental research to make internet access available throughout the world. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specialized in peer-to-peer distributed networking. He has published multiple papers in premier conferences and journals. He also has one international patent.
Article by Xiaohui Liu
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5 August, 2022
Incomplete information games on Bitcoin: Solving blockchain privacy dilemma using zero knowledge
Games with incomplete information can be developed on Bitcoin today since sCrypt has implemented zk-SNARKs.
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3 August, 2022
Programmable zero knowledge proofs using zk-SNARKs: part 3
sCrypt reimplement ZKKSP by leveraging the programmability of zkSNARKs. They simply combine elliptic curve point multiplication used in Part 2...
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20 July, 2022
Programmable zero knowledge proofs using zk-SNARKs: Part 2
sCrypt shows how to implement another sophisticated cryptographic primitive by simply “programming” it in zero knowledge language Circom: ring signatures.
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18 July, 2022
Programmable zero knowledge proofs using zk-SNARKs: part 1
Developing a ZKP for a problem often requires the invention of a whole new cryptographic algorithm. It has no standard...
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13 July, 2022
ZK-friendly hash function MiMC in Bitcoin
The MiMC hash function is specifically designed to minimize circuit size and thus ZKP cost by using only additions and...
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4 July, 2022
ZK-Rollups on Bitcoin: Way more scalable than on Ethereum
In this post, sCrypt implemented the first-ever ZK-Rollup (ZKR) directly on Bitcoin. They also showed why ZKR works better on...
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