Welcome to episode 116 of the FTX Podcast featuring special guests Kaveh Aasaraai & Rahul Maganti with your host Tristan Yver!

In this episode we dive back in with Jump to explore ZKs and hardware optimization! 

As some of you are familiar with by now: Jump Crypto is the crypto arm of Jump Trading Group that is home to builders, partners and traders working towards the next frontier in crypto infrastructure.

Kaveh works at the Research Department for Jump with a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Toronto. Kaveh’s research interests include computer architecture, soft processors, low-power designs and now the utility of hardware for crypto.  Rahul is Vice President at Jump Crypto Venture and a leader on the applied ZK team.

Kaveh & Rahul have found a synergistic link in working together through combining their respective strengths. An off-chance meet up at a crypto conference has set them on a path to utilize Kaveh’s breadth of hardware knowledge with Rahul’s groundbreaking work on ZKs. Tune in to learn how these two fields complement each other and the potential for future utility. The team over at Jump Crypto is on a mission to bring the ecosystem together through cross-chain interoperability and streamlining transactional verification proofs across blockchains. Kaveh has an extensive history working with hardware components - this is proving to be a key part to Rahul’s ZK mission; as custom optimized hardware provides computational power needed to generate realtime proofs on the blockchain.