Week - 1

• https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/ A primer for elliptic curve cryptography - Recommended by Vitalik
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtBM06xwaw&t=596s - Elliptic Curves DH - 80% similar content to above for people who are more of a visual learner
• https://emirsoyturk.medium.com/hello-arithmetization-55e57c8e5471
• https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2016/12/10/qap.html recommended by oba in discord
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7w6LWXkwns&t=1843s - Summa protocol architecture - 5 months old, architecture could have changed by now
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnhjM_2hDJE&t=870s Cryptography playlist by open zeppelin covering group theory, elliptic curve groups, and pairings.
• https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html - Porter recommended this for KZG PCS

Week 2

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SXMd6S0r0I - Plonkish Artihmetization and How it is different and better from R1CS
• https://www.cryptologie.net/article/527/understanding-plonk/ How Plonks work by david wong - Wish list item
• https://xiaohuiliu.medium.com/how-plonk-works-part-1-bc8050f4805e#:~:text=2-,PLONK is a state-of-the-art zk-,and reused by all circuits¹. - Multi-part series on how Plonk works - Wish list item
• https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ Rust is a pre-requisite for writing the circuits in halo2 - The recommended way just to get started is to cover the first 5 chapters and then also cover the generic and traits, everything else can be covered on the go.
• https://learn.0xparc.org/halo2/ - 0xparc halo2 learning group, halo2 is a rust library for writing Plonkish circuits

Week 3

So Halo 2 is giving me a hard time, a real hard time. So I realized the mistake, the mistake was that the above resources go too fast and I lacked a lot of underlying knowledge, I still lack a lot.

So listing the following few resources that I should have gone through before starting the 0xparc halo2 playlist, this will fill in some missing pieces.