The Cost of Proving a Proven Network

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We have what's called an honest minority assumption, that we just need one prover to be online and participating. And so one of the things that we want in these prover networks is some amount of redundancy. So 100 to 1 means that even if 99% of all the provers in the world just suddenly go offline, the ZK roll-up still keeps on progressing forward. The costliness of these provers are extremely high; there's only one because of how high they are. With further optimizations of each one of their own tech stack, you get some improvements. Is there any magnitude more block space do we get as a result of all of these things? Right, right

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----- Timestamps:

4:00 DANIEL SHORR 6:00 Cryptography and AI 9:15 A Computing Explosion 13:10 On-Chain AI Models 15:45 Modulus Labs 19:15 Compute Integrity 24:00 A Verifiable World 26:15 Accountability for Machine Models

31:00 JUSTIN DRAKE 33:30 Nova Cryptography 39:00 Decentralizing zk-Rollups 43:30 The Future of Rollups 47:35 Improving Validity 50:45 This is a Big Deal 54:20 Justin’s Zuzalu Experience

---- Resources:

Daniel Shorr https://twitter.com/realDanielShorr?s=20

Modulus Labs https://www.moduluslabs.xyz/

Justin Drake https://twitter.com/drakefjustin?s=20

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