Wormhole Foundation has awarded a Contributor Grant to @_Supranational for Wormhole ZK hardware acceleration.
This step is crucial for minimizing trust and enhancing security of the multichain ecosystem powered by @Wormhole.
1) Faster/Cheaper implementations of Groth16
Proofs are a large cost for Storage Providers in Filecoin, so we spent engineering time to make them faster.
See 2021 numbers:
https://t.co/mOfa8MqJH9
Only this year we have a 6x speedup thanks to @_Supranational!
We are excited to announce our partnership with Supranational, working on the next iteration of VDFs (you all lovingly know them as Timelords) to help make our PoST network better than ever!
https://t.co/KNTXtyPtHu
🔊This week, we cover hardware for ZKPs and VDFs! @AnnaRRose & @tarunchitra chat with Simon Peffers & @kellymolson from @_Supranational. They share their knowledge of FPGAs, ASICs and how it all ties into Moore’s law, ZK cryptography and blockchains!
https://t.co/1ElzbM2fn8
This is the first post in a series of progress blogs by Principal Researcher Joey Dodds (@n1nj4.) He introduces the ‘blst’ BLS verification project, a new collaboration between Galois, @_Supranational, @protocollabs, and @ethereum. Check it out: https://t.co/82wIXD4ra4
Round 3 winner of the VDF FPGA competition, Benjamin Devlin, writes about low latency multipliers on the Jane Street Tech Blog: https://t.co/xm3zZAD7jP
In this post we'll synthesize the learnings from our ASIC design studies to arrive at an initial design and implementation of the OpenVDF modular squaring unit: https://t.co/IlSyV4EiTh
Congratulations to Eric Pearson, the round 1 winner in the VDF FPGA competition. Eric increased the throughput of the baseline design by 78% and won $64,200. https://t.co/CYtvYFH1l0
Two new prizes also announced, ending Jan 30.
#1 - $5,000 for fastest alternative algorithm implementation on FPGA
#2 - $5,000 for best research paper exploring low latency RSA VDF algorithms
Official rules here: https://t.co/9G5XK42dIN