Outline

This page highlights the content outline.

• Part 1 - Intro to Zero Knowledge technology

  • What are zk proofs?

  • Why are they important? What problems do they solve?

  • How do they work?

  • What are SNARKS & STARKS? What's the difference?

  • What are zkVMs & zkEVMs? How are they different from each other?

• Part 2 - Intro to Mina

  • An overview of Mina protocol

  • How's Mina different from other Layer 1s like Ethereum, Solana etc?

  • A brief walkthrough of protocol architecture

  • Highlight unique features of Mina

• Part 3 - Intro to zkApp (on Mina)

  • What are zkApps?

  • How are they different from dapps?

  • Comparison of application design & architecture (eg prover & verifier functions)

    • Take Sudoku as an example to highlight the difference in approach while designing a dapp vs a zkApp

  • How does a zkApp work on Mina?

• Part 4 - Deploy a Hello World smart contract on Mina

  • SnarkyJS (elementary concepts)

  • Brief explanation of a zkApp architecture in the context of a hello world smart contract

  • Setting up the dev environment

  • Coding a hello world smart contract

  • Deploying it on testnet

  • Interacting with it

• Part 5 - Building a zkApp - zkSudoku

  • Detailed explanation of application design & architecture

  • More relevant concepts of SnarkyJS

  • Walkthrough of the codebase (smart contracts, UI integration, wallet integration etc)

  • Deploying on testnet

  • Playing around with your first zkApp

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