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Episode 277: Nova and Beyond with Srinath Setty

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Spartan: The Proverse Commits to the Witness

Hypernova uses the sum check protocol, but it performs a single invocation. Whereas if you look at a full fledged snark like Spartan in the main protocol, there are two invocations of the sum check Protocol. So that's super interesting though that you had actually been working on the sum check work and then moved over to the fully committed scheme. And now you're starting to combine them in hypernova. Where do you go from here? Like do you add more sum checks? Do you find new ways that they can be combined?

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