Introduction to Snarks
Duration: 00:22:32
Speaker: Christian Reitwiessner
Type: Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Jul 2026
Blockchains are a hostile world were all information is public and computations are expensive. A technology called zkSNARKs is coming to the rescue: It allows both a tremendous speedup in verifying the correctness of a computation while at the same time it hides the private details from prying eyes. This talk tries to give an idea about how and why it works.