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Risc Zero will open-source its \u201cType 0\u201d zkEVM, Zeth, in a bid to make zero-knowledge infrastructure more accessible to developers.<\/p>\n
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin previously wrote in a blog post<\/a> that there are four different types of zkEVMs, ranging from fully Ethereum equivalent to high-level language equivalents.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brian Retford, CEO and co-founder of Risc Zero, told Blockworks in an interview that Zeth has been built using standard Rust crates, a programming language used by the popular Ethereum node software Reth<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just the same semantics; it\u2019s exactly the same code,\u201d Retford said.<\/p>\n Zeth itself is a general-purpose programming language, which can be EVM<\/a> equivalent \u2014 making it what Retford claims is a \u201cType 0\u201d zkVM that can be applied to other networks.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can have a zkSolana [for example] without rewriting the code,\u201d Retford said.\u00a0<\/p>\n This makes Zeth a modular solution for developers wishing to build zk technology, Retford explains, providing a way for developers to innovate further in a zk context.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are really starting to modify the EVM itself, and if you think about how complex it is to audit, build and maintain zkEVM, it basically pushes zkEVM towards more status and stability, making it more difficult for people to innovate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n By contrast, with Zeth, developers can simply modify and customize their zk stack, Retford explains. This means it becomes easier for development teams to leverage zk technology without being the experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t need to have these very large, highly compensated teams doing a bunch of math in order to use zk technology,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Zeth also enables zk proving technology without depending on validators or sync committees as its zkVM is able to construct, verify, store and apply transactions independently in minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cZeth\u2019s code is an EVM, and we compile it down to RISC-V and then run it on our zkVM, producing a complete zk proof of the EVM,\u201d Retford said. \u201cHow do we do it in minutes? We farm the computation out in parallel.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the day\u2019s top crypto news and insights delivered to your email every evening.\u00a0Subscribe to Blockworks\u2019 free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Want alpha sent directly to your inbox? Get degen trade ideas, governance updates, token performance, can\u2019t-miss tweets and more from\u00a0Blockworks Research\u2019s Daily Debrief<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Can\u2019t wait? Get our news the fastest way possible.\u00a0Join us on Telegram<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Risc Zero will open-source its \u201cType 0\u201d zkEVM, Zeth, in a bid to make zero-knowledge infrastructure more accessible to developers. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin previously wrote in a blog post that there are four different types of zkEVMs, ranging from fully Ethereum equivalent to high-level language equivalents.\u00a0 Brian Retford, CEO and co-founder of Risc Zero, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-141077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147101,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141077\/revisions\/147101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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