Can Noir/ProveKit verify an EMV tap without leaking PAN, expiry, or CVV? This repo tries.

Bitcoin privacy, the part everyone handwaves, gets a Q&A on Shielded Bitcoin with Clara Shik and btcinsider.

AI gets to poke hash functions now: HashSmash is an open project for probing SHA-256, SHA-3, and BLAKE3.

Invites a Tuesday chat on Bitcoin PIPEs v2, AADP WE, and Shielded Bitcoin, plus a link to the event page.

EF/OA's zkAPI mashes private AI inference, ETH vault deposits, and zk proofs into one unlinkable usage flow.

zkAPI? A proposed Ethereum/OA scheme for private AI inference, where you prove eligibility in ZK and get fixed compute.

Monthly ZK/privacy/crypto roundup, covering commitments, Fiat-Shamir, signatures, apps, and ecosystem news, because why not.

Fixes a Plonky3 deadlock by dropping the shared hiding RNG lock before rayon kicks off parallel FRI and Merkle work.

Project Eleven’s CUTS post introduces a few-time hash signature scheme, plus the usual size/security tradeoffs for signing twice.

X post announcing Project Eleven acquired Riva Labs for PQ crypto work, because apparently research now needs a cap table.

So, does this Lean repo actually prove Logjumps’ Montgomery reduction matches the spec, or just wave at it?

Four high-severity bugs in a Noir to Gnark to Solana pipeline, because circuit semantics and backend glue still like to drift apart.

Plonky3's zk mode can deadlock when Rayon re-enters a spin::Mutex RNG, so the post shows the bug, repro, and two boring fixes.

ZK Podcast episode with Soubhik Deb on Yukon, quantum attacks on secp256k1, and turning AI-assisted research into chores.

X post on Google Cloud backing Puffer's preconf and execution infra for Ethereum, so transactions get preconfirmations, apparently.

Caracal7 is an experimental GPU SNARK prover over field 127, with a claimed top-5 spot on @eth_proofs client-side benches.

Private Bitcoin on L1, because apparently the base layer wasn't noisy enough, now with shielded transfers.

Vendor breach exposed driver’s licenses, and the obvious fix is less KYC hoarding, more zero-knowledge proofs.

Zero Knowledge video with JP Aumasson on hash design, construction, and the usual cryptographic footguns.

Nethermind's tweet congratulates a FRI soundness paper for a TCC 2026 award, because STARKs need proofs about proofs.

Curated cryptography statements and open problems with status notes and paper links, because theorem graveyards need indexing too.

Payy's own prover and validator keys allegedly signed the batch that drained $1.83M USDC from its rollup bridge.