ZKVM systems use this sort of non-deterministic trick a lot. You're not guaranteed that like anything that happens on the host side is going to produce something interesting to talk about, which is why we get into this kind of work lives data structures. But it does allow you to do sort of the check and verify, right? If I want to do a square root, I can always ask the host, hey, please put the square root of this number here. And then inside the ZKVM, I can take that number and make sure it matches the thing I'm expecting it to be.
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo chat with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle from RISC Zero. They discuss their previous work in cloud infrastructure and how ZK offered unique solutions to long standing scaling problems. They cover topics like RISC-V, building VMs, and how RISC Zero aims to build a system which could support a decentralized public cloud.
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