RISC Zero Contributes to the Future of ZK Technology, Vitalik Buterin Acknowledges the Project’s Significance

Vitalik Buterin’s blog post on the future of Ethereum has generated enthusiastic discussions in the blockchain community.

Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on the future of Ethereum has sparked enthusiastic discussions within the blockchain community. Among the key highlights is the project's innovative work in zero-knowledge (ZK) technology, which has seen significant contributions from RISC Zero.

In a series of tweets, Jeremy Bruestle, CEO and co-founder of RISC Zero, a zero-knowledge verifiable general computing platform, highlighted their company's role in shaping the ZK-enabled future, as mentioned in Buterin's post. Bruestle pointed out how one of the features mentioned in the article — parallel proving via linking memory states of a single long-running computation — has already been implemented by RISC Zero.

“One of the features mentioned in the article (parallel proving via linking memory states of a single long-running computation) is, in fact, how our continuations feature (https://t.co/buP5QlFq30) has worked for a while now. Enjoy reading about the future of ZK in the article!”

Buterin's responses to these comments further underscore the importance of these advancements in ZK technology. In one exchange, he draws attention to the critical role of compression efficiency in enabling faster proving times.

“Processing 1 MB of data in 1 second would require about 16,000 compression funcs/second. Achieving one more order of magnitude (160,000 funcs/sec) would be another big milestone. Appreciate your work.”

Meanwhile, crypto enthusiast Paolo Rebuffo raised concerns regarding the need for a timely decision on incorporating Verkle Trees into clients, given the finite resources available and the potential impact on the Ethereum roadmap.

“I believe it is urgent to come to a final decision on whether to continue to develop and implement Verkle Trees within clients.

Resources are not infinite, and eventually there would be other parts of the ethereum roadmap to focus on.”

In response to Rebuffo's inquiry about Verkle Trees, Buterin clarified that about 75% of the implementation focuses on shared components that remain the same across different binary tree aggregation techniques, such as tree keys, gas cost adjustments, and transition processes, ultimately streamlining the integration of Verkle Trees, Poseidon binary, and Blake binary.

“About 75% of the Verkle Tree implementation is in fact shared components that remain the same for any binary tree aggregation technique (tree keys, gas cost adjustments, transition processes). This includes the code for Poseidon binary and Blake binary.”

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