Request for review: zkFOL, a direct arithmetisation of first-order logic, now public.
@ModulusZK compiles application rules written as first-order logic predicates straight to polynomial constraints. There is no bytecode and no zkVM. A state transition is accepted only with a proof that the predicate holds. The contract is the specification; a rule that cannot be proved does not execute.
The implementation is the construction in Murdoch J. Gabbay’s ePrint 2024/954, “Arithmetisation of computation via polynomial semantics for first-order logic”: truth maps to 0, conjunction and universal quantification to addition, disjunction and existential quantification to multiplication, with no encoding into an abstract machine.
Public material:
• Repo: https://t.co/VQWEq5XGFy
• Draft: https://t.co/nnEHwZ8wAp…
• Docs: https://t.co/agHVL1a1Nw
The published desktop-CPU comparison, fib(10,000) by fast doubling against RISC Zero 3.0.5 and SP1 6.3.1, is 4.82 ms and under 10 MB versus 3.69–49.24 s and 312 MB–17 GB. Those figures are ours. They have not been independently reproduced.
What we want is a technical review, not an endorsement. In particular: soundness of the shallow translation outside the finite models in the paper, the compiler from predicate to constraint system, the commitment scheme and any setup assumption, and a rerun of the fib benchmark.
If you review proof systems or polynomial commitments, a written objection is as useful as a confirmation. Repo, draft, and ePrint are linked above.
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We’re pleased to report that @moduluszk's zkFOL tech stack is now public for review at https://t.co/Z4fEVjbS0q.
The paper draft is also online at https://t.co/CKqxsrhlqZ
Our docs and website have been updated inline.
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zkFOL @ModulusZK:
No mutable state → re-entrancy impossible
No recursion → no gas griefing/infinite-loops
No VM → EVM exploits impossible
No execution trace → TOCTOU and internal front-running collapse
Logic directly to polynomials → contract IS the proof