The public archive of TVBridge. Every transmission ships with citations and reproducible references. This is the slow-format companion to the daily broadcast.
“Grep the archive. Read the originals.”
CHANNEL GUIDE
The open docs channel is the archive of every transmission that has aired on TVBridge. Each entry includes the script, the citations, the source links and a short editorial note from the research desk.
Entries are tagged by channel, by topic and by date. The archive is searchable and grep-able. We encourage you to read the originals --- the broadcast is a starting point, not a destination.
TOPICS WE COVER
PAIRING SNARK
Groth16
Pairing-based SNARK with constant-size proofs and per-circuit trusted setup. The original three-element proof. We cover the construction, the trusted setup ceremony hazards and the modern alternatives.
UNIVERSAL SETUP
PLONK and PLONKish
Universal updatable structured reference string. The arithmetization that gave us HyperPlonk, UltraPlonk, Plonky2 and the modern PLONKish family. Custom gates, lookups, and the prover bottlenecks.
TRANSPARENT
STARKs and FRI
Transparent, post-quantum friendly proofs built on FRI. No trusted setup, no toxic waste. Larger proofs but enormous prover throughput. The Starkware school and the FRI verifier complexity tradeoff.
RECURSIVE
Halo2
PLONKish backend with no trusted setup, custom gates, lookups and recursion via cycle of curves. The workhorse behind several modern zkEVMs. We cover the gadget library and recursion patterns.
INCREMENTAL
Folding schemes
Nova, SuperNova, HyperNova, ProtoStar. Folding turns long computations into a single recursive instance. The new prover hot path for IVC and zkVMs.
GENERAL PURPOSE
zkVMs
SP1, RISC0, Jolt and friends. General purpose RISC-V zero-knowledge virtual machines. Write Rust, prove execution. The fastest moving corner of the prover ecosystem.
LIGHT CLIENT
IBC
The Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. Tendermint light clients, packet relay, channels and connections. The original validity bridge and still the security gold standard.
ORACLE + RELAYER
LayerZero
Configurable security stack with oracle and relayer separation. ULN, DVNs, executors. The most-deployed message passing layer in production today.
GUARDIAN SET
Wormhole
Multi-chain message passing secured by a permissioned guardian set. NTT, governance, cross-chain queries. We cover the incident history and the security model evolution.
PERMISSIONLESS
Hyperlane
Permissionless interop with modular interchain security modules. Bring your own validator set, bring your own routing. Sovereign by design.
HOW TO SUBMIT A TOPIC
- Hold $TVB in a connected wallet. Topic submissions are gated to the broadcast room.
- Open a topic proposal in the open docs repository. Include the paper or repo link, a one-paragraph summary and your proposed channel.
- Holders vote on the next week's programming. Approved topics get scheduled into the TV guide.
- Anchor-chan reads the segment on air. The transmission is archived with full citations.
ARCHIVE API (PLACEHOLDER)
# list transmissions
GET https://tvb.yt/api/transmissions
# fetch a single transmission
GET https://tvb.yt/api/transmissions/:id
# search the archive
GET https://tvb.yt/api/search?q=halo2
The archive API is in design. Track progress at github.com/tvbridge-yt/tvbridge .
