Zero Knowledge, Infinite Trust : The Evolution and Revolution of Blockchain Technology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Sasson, Eli.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blockchains (Databases).

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

An eye-opening discussion of how to apply new blockchain technologies to realize our digital potential In Zero Knowledge, Infinite Trust , pioneering cryptographer, blockchain innovator, and the co-inventor of the STARK cryptographic system, Eli Ben-Sasson, delivers a deeply insightful discussion of the fundamental values and mathematical.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why Blockchain Matters

IntegrityLand

The Storage of Your "Stuff"

Chapter 2 The Brave New World of Bitcoin

The Genesis of Bitcoin

Broadness: The All-Are-Invited Ideal

Public Verifiability: Radical Transparency

Incentivized Integrity: Why It Stays Honest

Chapter 3 An Overview of Blockchain

What Exactly Is a Blockchain?

Who Participates in a Blockchain Network-and What They Do

How Blockchains Reach Consensus

Why Blockchain Data Can't Be Changed

Where Does Cryptocurrency Come In?

What Is a Smart Contract?

The Concern About Privacy

The Concern About Scale

What Is a Layer 2 Blockchain?

Chapter 4 Bitcoin's Breakthroughs-and Blockchain's Expansion

Six Mind-Blowing Features of Bitcoin

Who Is This Satoshi Nakamoto Everyone Talks About?

The Double-Spend Challenge-And Bitcoin's Brilliant Fix

Incentivized Integrity-Driving With A Spike

What Is The "Hard Cap," And Why Does It Matter?

Why Is "Self-Custody" Important?

Can Bitcoin Payments Be Reversed?

The Conceptual Leap to Ethereum

Chapter 5 Beyond Currency: Blockchain as Infrastructure

The Ethereum Model

The Fragility of Records

The Automated Contract

Why Adoption Happens: The Psychology of Control

Chapter 6 Social Media, AI, and the Gig Economy

The Algorithm

Why Worry?

How Can Blockchain Help?

Artificial Intelligence

The Gig Economy

Blockchain as the Enabler

Chapter 7 Roadblocks to Mass Adoption

Roadblock 1: Regulation

Roadblock 2: User Experience

Roadblock 3: The Scaling (or Tricky) Trilemma

Chapter 8 The Magic of Proofs

Radical Math: Succinct Verification and Scale

From Theory to Practice

Why Succinct Verification Works

Why Succinct Verification Suddenly Mattered in 2013.

Chapter 9 Infrastructure for the Unbanked

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Blockchain in Africa

Global Remittance Corridors

Chapter 10 Blockchain in Practice: Usability, Scaling, and Privacy

Radical Math: Zero-Knowledge Privacy

How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Work

From Controversy to Acceptance

From "Galactic" Proofs to Practical Systems

zk-SNARKs

Zerocash: A zk-SNARK-Based Private Payments Protocol

The Ceremony: Trusted Setup for zk-SNARKs

Discovering STARKs

Chapter 11 Research Springs to Life: From Breakthrough to Blueprint

What a Breakthrough Really Looks Like

The FRI Breakthrough

Back to STARKs

The Criticism

From Theory to Infrastructure

Uri

The Founding of StarkWare

Mathematics Is Power

Chapter 12 StarkWare: From Genesis to 8 Billion

The First Proof

Math-to-Market Momentum

How STARKs Enforce Custody

What Was StarkEx Built to Deliver?

Out in the Open

Letting Go and Boiling the Ocean

Investment and Valuation

The Boost to 8 Billion

Launching Starknet

What Happened After Launch

It's Blockchain On Speed

Back to Bitcoin

Chapter 13 The Harshest Critique: Do We Even Need Crypto?

The Argument Against Crypto

The Counterargument

Chapter 14 Stablecoins and Meme Coins

The Stablecoin

The Meme Coin

Remittances

Skills That Drive Stablecoin Adoption

The GENIUS Act

Other Imaginative Use Cases

Chapter 15 The Integrity Web

The Empty Pot

The Integrity Web: A New Kind of Infrastructure

How the Integrity Web Will Emerge

Interest Will Grow

Own Your Life

My Role in This Story

Blockchain Is Too Important to Become Politicized

Appendix: Questions About STARK Proofs Answered

What is a Proof in the Context of Stark Proofs and Blockchain Systems?

What is Computation?

What's the Big Idea Behind STARKs?.

What About Privacy?

What is Zero Knowledge?

Why Move Computation off the Blockchain?

What is a Prover?

What is a Verifier?

What Can and Can't be Proved?

What Resources does it Take to Create a STARK Proof?

What's the Speed Advantage of Using STARKs?

What Kind of Cryptography is Behind STARKs?

Why are STARKs Secure-Even Against Quantum Computers?

What is Soundness?

Where did STARKs Come From?

Are STARKs Relevant Only to Blockchains?

Glossary

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

It's Blockchain On Speed

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781394373833

OCLC:

1587897098