devcon 6 / scaling privacy with starlight
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Scaling Privacy with Starlight
Duration: 00:28:23
Speaker: Chaitanya Konda, Paul Brody
Type: Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Oct 2022
Five years ago, at DevCon in Prague, EY took the wraps off Nightfall, our open source public domain approach to privacy. Now it's live on Ethereum as a layer 2 privacy-enabled ZK-optimistic roll-up solution called Polygon Nightfall. That's only half the story though - we also need private smart contracts. This talk will cover our roadmap to that end, including our newest tool in development (also open source) called Starlight.
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