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RISC Zero Debuts its zkVM

The team has shipped its production-ready zero-knowledge virtual machine.

Jun 18, 2024 • 1 min read

RISC Zero introduced its zkVM 1.0, a general-purpose, production-ready zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM).

What's the scoop?

Dapp Interoperability: zkVM supports dapp interoperability across any blockchain integrating a RISC Zero Verifier, not solely EVM chains like zkEVMS.
Rust Compatibility: It can generate proofs for any program developed in Rust, supporting complex logic without size or gas cost limitations.
Scalability Enhancement: The virtual machine offloads computational work in on-chain dapps, enhancing scalability by ensuring quick verification of compressed computations, creating a cost-effective and better-performant environment.

Bankless Take:

RISC Zero’s zkVM 1.0 potentially represents a big step forward thanks to progress on scalability and interoperability. Not only should this increase performance, but could also significantly reduce developer friction by providing tools to eliminate gas cost limitations, offload complex computational work for dapps, and allow the virtual machine to be run on any network that supports a RISC Zero verifier, its program that verifies proofs generated by the zkVM.

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