There are a few projects out there that the building at different types of zero knowledge virtual machines. I think they call it gk e v m, or something like that. And i think there is two or three other projects that are trying to build virtual machines that are automatically generating zero knowledge proves. So these virtual machines all make different trade ofs an different, different design choices. It's very early in terms of figuring out which set of thoseer choices as the correcto may be appropriate for a given use case.
This week, Anna chats with Bobbin Threadbare about his project Miden, a STARK-based roll-up which was recently purchased by Polygon. We recap the differences between STARKs and SNARKs and the increasingly blurred line between these two proving systems. We then map Bobbin’s journey to Miden VM (now Polygon Miden), how it originated from his earlier project Distaff VM and now incorporates the Winterfell prover from his days at Facebook.
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