Today we're releasing Lasso 🪢

Lasso enables efficient lookups over massive (seriously, colossal) tables. That means a fast, comprehensible, and modular zkVM backend. 👇

Investing and Engineering @a16z crypto. 

Did my time in big tech, since recovered.

Lasso's efficiency makes it a viable SNARK backend for all VM instructions. We call this Jolt: Just One Lookup Table ⚡️

Low-level details of these instructions can be shared across many VMs, enabling fast SNARKs of all of the programming languages developers know and love.

How efficient is it? >10x faster than halo2's lookup arguments.

To understand the motivations and potentials of the tech, check out our blog post. It's approachable, I think.

To understand the motivations and potentials of the tech, check out our blog post. It's approachable, I think.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/building-on-lasso-and-jolt/

As always, our work is open source.

https://github.com/a16z/Lasso

Also, this is SNARK advice, not financial advice. Don't get them twisted.

Also, this is SNARK advice, not financial advice. Don't get them twisted.

https://a16z.com/disclosures/

Finally, we're looking for contributors, come join us! We believe Lasso and Jolt will be huge for decentralized systems.

Come play a part in building that future. Open issues can be found on Github and feel free to reach out via DMs.