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.

As always, our work is open source.

https://github.com/a16z/Lasso

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.

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/

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/