Study Club

RISC Zero's Study Club sessions aim to introduce the pre-requisite concepts necessary to understand our technology.

Upcoming Sessions

We'll post announcements for upcoming talks on this page, on Twitter, and on Discord.

Past Sessions

Full recordings and slides from past sessions are available here

Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines

• What RISC-V has to do with RISC Zero's zkVM
• Continuations: Scaling in zkVM

Mathematical Primitives

• Intro Finite Fields
• Finite Field Implementations: Algorithms for Fast Multiplication
• Intro to Number Theoretic Transforms (NTTs)
• Intro to Reed-Solomon Codes

ZK Protocol Design

• Using Quotients in ZK Protocols: A Peek Inside STARKs and DEEP-ALI
• Intro to FRI
• FRI Mechanics: Folding, Committing, and Batching

Other Educational Videos

You may also be interested in some of our other talks and podcasts or our developer-focused workshops from ZKHack III and ZKHack Lisbon.