The key thing between software and hardware is one is super expensive so I guess to the disadvantage of the argument that we'll be making specialized hardware. If you've spent time building an ASIC supply chain squeezing what you can from Taiwan and then the the proving systems massively change you may have wasted a really large amount of money. No point designing pumping out loads of these a6 for some proving system the whole thing changesyou will waste a lot. One counter actor that is to make FPGAs because yeah they're akin to basically prototyping for some ofThese a6 and they're much cheaper to work with but you still have some of the same sort of hardware difficulties. no one yet knows if
In this 2-part series exploring ZK Hardware, Anna Rose interviews various participants from the ZPrize competition, alongside the creator of ZPrize and co-host of this episode Alex Pruden from Aleo. Through these interviews, they dig into the different types of hardware, such as GPUs and FPGAs, that can be used to accelerate ZKP computation. They also discuss the underlying mathematical techniques in ZKPs that can be optimized for and the tricks and strategies that ZPrize competitors used to achieve these optimizations.
In Part 1 of the series, Anna and Alex first interview Luke Pearson from Polychain Capital, who was an architect on the ZPrize. They then interview Ben Devlin and Rahul Yesantharao from Jane Street who were members of one of the winning teams, Hardcaml.
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