Learning about Circle STARKs and fell into a deep rabbit hole of Riemann-Roch spaces. I love crypto.

Learning about Circle STARKs and fell into a deep rabbit hole of Riemann-Roch spaces. I love crypto. 

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/278

tricks with polynomials. Computational monadologist. Prev: ML HealthCareInc 🦄 | R&D PeopleFund | AI & Stats lecturer

In Circle STARKs, the polynomials used in traditional STARKs are replaced by elements of a Riemann-Roch space. Instead of representing polynomials as evaluations over a line, Circle STARKs represent them as evaluations over a circle group (hence the name).

I first thought this was about Circle USDC privacy feature