At Stanford Blockchain Conference 2023, Eli Ben Sasson made a comparison of two main polynomial commitment schemes (PCS) used in practice:

1. KZG, used in DankSharding and many a SNARK
2. FRI, used in Stone and other STARKs.

This talk will revisit the topic and add Binius - a new PCS based on towers of binary fields.

Topics to be discussed:
- What is the cost of committing to data in different commitment schemes?
- The impact of choice of finite field - large prime (KZG) vs. small prime (FRI) vs. small binary towers (Binius)
- Additional considerations when deploying inside a SNARK, STARK or other ARKs

Speakers:
Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare
Shahar Papini, Software Engineer at StarkWare
Jim Posen, Co-Founder at Ulvetanna
Zac Williamson, CEO and Co-Founder at Aztec Labs
Mamy Ratsimbazafy, Head of Proof Systems at Taiko