Oleksandr Kurbatov
Oleksandr Kurbatov, Lead of Cryptography, Rarimo Protocol.
Oleksandr is a cryptographer specializing in zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identity, and applied cryptography. He has co-authored Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) with Vitalik Buterin: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7812; and authored dozens of well-recognized research papers: https://github.com/distributed-lab/papers, contributing to advancements in privacy-preserving technologies.
Sessions
Today main focus of Web3 is on DeFi, especially when it comes to privacy. Early cypherpunks and Web3 evangelists always promised data ownerships as one of the key values, but we never got it. I usually put Web3 and the cypherpunk movement under the same umbrella “The Open Web” - not the case today and we have to start looking into how do we rebuild the internet stack(non-defi) in a Web3 way.
There is a massive movement to account abstraction and account access methods based on zkPassport, zkLogin, zkEmail, zkTLS, etc. This session will examine how zkBiometry fits into this landscape and its potential role in web3 applications.