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Episode 284: Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens

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The Importance of a Formal Verifier

A formal verifier is going to reason very precisely about the semantics of the programming language in order to prove something about the software. So typically it's parameterized on the actual language that the contract is in so for example typically you I mean there are ways around this but typically you write a formal verifier that knows about the semantics of a specific language and then after that you can feed in any particular program within that language you want okay.

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