✅ Solidity smart contract execution
✅ Unbounded compute via Continuations
✅ Trustless off-chain execution
✅ Security of the first production-ready zkVM
✅ No vendor lock-in
All without writing a single circuit.
Leverage our universal verifier for the first production-ready zkVM.
No running trusted setups.
No circuit-specific verifiers.
Update ZK logic easily, overcoming complexities that have hindered ZK adoption.
Imagine proving ERC-20 balances, batching thousands of signature verifications, proving blob inclusion on @Celestia, or doing all three in a few lines of code. 🤝
For an overview, check out this video from RISC Zero's Angelo Caposeele ↓
Introducing Zeth: A Fully Open Source Type 0 zkEVM 🚀
Built on the RISC Zero zkVM and Bonsai, Zeth is a performant, upgradable, and scalable way for developers to ZK prove any Ethereum block ushering in the next generation of ZK and EVM
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Democratizing zkEVM 🧑💻
Zeth makes it easier to build ZK rollups, zkEVMs, light clients, and bridges by providing an open source solution to generate ZK Proofs of EVM and Ethereum blocks
Projects can use Zeth to bring ZK to their protocols in weeks instead of years
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Why is Zeth a Type 0 zkEVM?
Zeth can prove all aspects of Ethereum, from every EVM opcode and EIPs to the block construction itself
We're able to accomplish this because Zeth was built by reusing major parts of reth and revm on top of the RISC Zero zkVM
@RiscZero and @LayerN_ have joined forces to develop the first ZK Fraud Proof system, combining Optimistic Rollups with ZK Proofs, opening the door for more performant, reliable, and secure Blockchains.
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Optimistic Rollups and Zero Knowledge Proofs don’t need to fight! ❤️
While @LayerN_ is a modular Optimistic Rollup, its Fraud Proof system has been completely overhauled and replaced with Succinct ZK Proofs, which attest to invalid state transitions.
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This was accomplished by porting the @LayerN_ execution environment onto the @RiscZero zkVM.
🎉 This is just the start! 🎉
The versatility of the @RiscZero zkVM will enable compatibility with other execution layers in the future such as EVM, SVM, and WASM etc.
A huge thank you to participants in @__zkhack__ 's first IRL hackathon! Take a look here at the winning projects (and learn more about what we're looking for at hackathons): risczero.com/blog/zkhack
Thank you to everyone who participated and submitted to the RISC Zero prize category! Here are some of the projects that we loved:
The ZeroSkill team added a Rust-based Brainf*ck interpreter to the guest zkVM and used it to capture the execution of an interpreted program. This project was a great demonstration of ZK proofs for interpretable code. github.com/hananbeer/mind… devfolio.co/projects/mindf…
This week’s RISC Zero Study Club is focused on FRI!
For real-time FRI learning, join us Wednesday 10am PST/5PM UTC at zoom.us/j/99200763534
If you'll be at #ZKSummit, you can also catch @Paul_Gafni's workshop on this topic.
For async learning, read on!
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The FRI protocol, first published in 2018, is the backbone 🦴of all implementations of STARKs – and some newer SNARKs. risczero.com/docs/reference…
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First, some background:
The crux of RISC Zero’s technology is an argument of computational integrity that lives on a RISC Zero receipt. 📜 risczero.com/docs/explainer…
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Feb 1: What RISC-V has to do with RISC Zero’s zkVM with Erik Kaneda
Ever wondered how a general purpose assembly language found its place in the zk landscape?
We’ll discuss compilers and interpreters and how we incorporate them into our zk world.
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Feb 15: Finite Field Implementations: Algorithms for Fast Multiplication and Modular Reduction with Victor Graf (@_subgraf)
We will discuss high performance implementations for finite field arithmetic based on Montgomery, Barrett, and Karatsuba techniques.