Tornado cash clone

• This project is part of the learning of the zero knowledge proofs learning
• It has been done for educational purposes only

Stack used

• Foundry for the backend smart contracts
• Circom for circuit programming
• Next JS for frontend UI

New things learnt

• How zero knowledge proofs work at a basic level, circuit programming for proving statements without revealing underlying data.
• Learnt about how Groth16 work because it is used for Tornado Cash protocol
• Tricks used in Tornado Cash to compute merkle tree pairings
• Viem stack for blockchain interaction

Deployed side: https://tornadocashclone.netlify.app/

To run the frontend:

1. cd frontend
2. npm install
3. npm run dev
4. open browser at localhost:3000