Questions tagged [starks]

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Transparent Setup of SNARKs

The STARKs paper states Third, and most important, ZK-PCPs are transparent (or “public randomness” ), which means that the randomness used by the verifier is public; in particular, setting up a ZK-PCP requires no external trusted setup…
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STARKs for arbitrary computation

I have been reading Vitalik's series on STARKs recently (Part 1, 2 and 3). It is a nice and very understandable read for a layman like me. Brutal summary of my current understanding Vitalik outlines the following technique to prove the correctness…
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