Axiom aims to be used by smart contract developers who don't have to know anything about ZK. So imagine an archive node, but as a side effect, generating a zero knowledge proof of every step and recording those proofs in a ZK friendly format. Once we're in that format, if a smart contract queries against it, we could return the result of the query much faster than the initial process of generating the proof. That's what direction we're going in.
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Yi Sun, co-founder of Axiom. Yi was recently on the show to discuss ZK ML’s, however this time they take a closer look at the Axiom project and what it means to be a ZK coprocessor for Ethereum. During the interview they also explore what problems Axiom are trying to solve, how ZKPs are used to help bring historic data into smart contracts and what new use cases this architecture can support.
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Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.
Interested in building private applications? Check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo that enables non-cryptographers to harness the power of ZKPs to deploy decentralized exchanges, hidden information games, regulated stablecoins, and more. Visit http://developer.aleo.org.
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