11-15, 09:45–10:15 (Asia/Bangkok), Classroom A
We will present a new folding scheme that is 5 to 10 times more efficient than Nova, and 2.5 to 4 times more efficient than Hypernova. We will then explain how to use the scheme so as to construct a folding scheme for STARK proofs.
Albert Garreta is leading the cryptography research team at Nethermind. Formerly he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Basque Center of Applied Mathematics (Spain). He received his PhD in mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ, USA). His main research areas revolve around all types of zk-related topics such as code-based SNARKs, lookup and folding schemes, soundness aspects of interactive proofs, etc.