Today we’re joined by Uma Roy of Succinct Labs to discuss ZK-VM technology, the upcoming prover network, and the alternative scaling paths. We got into rollup architectures, Bitcoin integration, and the landscape of ZK proofs in crypto.

Follow our guest on Twitter: @pumatheuma

00:00 Start

00:53 Who is Uma?

01:16 What's a ZKVM?

03:07 Starkware vs Prover Network

04:20 How does it work?

05:28 Who plans to use this ZKVM?

07:50 Why does it take an hour?

10:01 What is the Prover Network?

14:15 ASICS for Prover Network?

21:07 System design

24:55 Roll ups remaining optimistic?

26:04 Let a thousand roll ups bloom

28:14 App chains

30:50 Solana ZK?

32:06 Solana target applications?

34:38 Scaling L1 fallacy

37:12 Interoperability

42:21 Beamchain

45:46 Differences in ZKVMs available?

50:17 Why will ZKVMS be profitable?

54:36 BitVM

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