Aragon ZK Research is an AragonDAO guild focused on ZK research, for a future of high scalability and privacy preserving voting systems for DAOs.
We follow the latest advances in cryptography and ZKP and aim to build a deep understanding of zk-snarks research. We aim to apply this knowledge to construct useful tools that can be applied to voting and privacy in DAOs, thus helping to enable alternative governance structures.
Projects
OVOTE: (Offchain Voting with Onchain Trustless Execution) Ethereum L2 for voting using validity-proofs (kind of zkRollup)
Blind-OVOTE: combines the OVOTE ideas with blind signatures inside zkSNARK, to provide gasless anonymous voting with onchain binding execution on Ethereum.
SHA-2 in Noir: SHA-256 & SHA-512 hash implementations in Noir zk-language
PoC implementation of logarithmic (and linkable) ring signatures, for private and scalable blockchain based voting (whether used alongside SNARKs/OVOTE or as a standalone protocol)
Team Lead. Mathematician and economist. Works on consensus algorithms and cryptography.
Vincenzo Iovino
PhD Cryptography. Lead Cryptographer. Main research interests are in cybersecurity, blockchain, cryptography, and in particular e-voting, functional encryption and ZK.
Roger Baig
PhD Computer Science. Extensive experience as research engineer and project manager.
Najmeh Soroush
PhD Cryptography. Mathematician and cryptographer. Research interests: Zero-Knowledge, Verifiable Functional Encryption and e-Voting.
Craig Sailor
Blockchain software engineer. Works on Cosmos/Tendermint blockchains with privacy-preserving features.
Kevin Jones
Blockchain software engineer. Lead developer of the Gears Cosmos SDK and contributor to Timelock.zone.
Ahmad Afuni
PhD Mathematics. Senior research engineer. Works on implementations of cryptosystems.