Smart Contracts
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...
Bitcoin is the blockchain network for smart contracts, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu tells CoinGeek TV
sCrypt CEO Xiaohui Liu pointed out that smart contracts were part of Satoshi’s vision back in 2009, but the BTC...
Enterprise use cases for smart contracts
As the smart contracts are stored on the immutable blockchain ledger, they can never become lost, fire damaged, or disappear....
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...
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...
zk-SNARKs on Bitcoin: Run Zcash on Bitcoin
zk-SNARK is a powerful primitive for blockchain privacy and scalability, and in this article, sCrypt showed what zk-SNARK is and...

