Sean Bowe gives an overview of Zcash "Sapling" detailing changes to the elliptical curves, zk-SNARK proving system, parameter generation and the breakthrough performance improvements that were included with the upgrade.

Live at Zcon0 (2018) Privacy: From A to Zcon
Presented by @zcashfoundation in Montreal, Canada

00:00 Introduction
02:17 Zcash payment addresses and transactions
04:24 Privacy by default
05:40 Zcash Network Upgrade "Sapling"
06:37 BLS12-381: A new pairing-friendly curve
08:19 Groth-16 zk-SNARK proving system
09:00 Powers of Tau and Sapling multi-party computation (MPC)
10:51 Sapling upgrade summary
11:35 Overview of Zerocash
12:49 Jubjub embedded elliptic curve
14:14 Sapling addresses and viewing keys
15:30 Split circuit design of Sapling
16:08 Groundbreaking performance improvements
17:43 Sapling engineering summary

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