We're finally releasing Jolt Alpha – the world's fastest zkVM.

Jolt is fully open source. Always has been and always will be.

zkVMs are the closest I've seen to algorithmic magic and I believe they'll allow us to deliver on the promises of web3.

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Or the code here: https://github.com/a16z/jolt

Or the book at this handy domain: jolt.a16zcrypto.com

Read the rest of the post here: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/building-jolt/

I have no idea what any of this means so I used Kagi to summarize for me.

Are there any projects built with Jolt? Any use cases that are instantly usable today?

Jolt launched today so little has been built with it yet. Any program written in Rust (in no-std) can be proven with Jolt.

Quickstart guide here:

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Jolt launched today so little has been built with it yet. Any program written in Rust (in no-std) can be proven with Jolt.

Quickstart guide here: https://jolt.a16zcrypto.com/usage/quickstart.html

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We wont be building a chain but theoretically someone could.

Optimistic rollups could definitely use Jolt (or other zkVMs) as a strategy for efficient and auditable fault proofs, or to convert fully to a zk rollup.

I'm personally pretty excited about non-blockspace applications as well such as light clients.

cool! Is this something that an optimistic rollup could implement to become a zk rollup? or will you build your own chain

No new compiler target or custom ISA. Jolt targets RV32I due to the relatively small instruction count. There is a small constant engineering cost per instruction.

Is it targeting some standard ISA for the VM, or did someone over there build a whole new rust compiler target for a custom ISA?

Jumping from coin to coin. Trying to make it.

You can get started with Jolt here: https://jolt.a16zcrypto.com/usage/quickstart.html

Is there anything there yet to interact with jolt ? 

Any daap, wallet ?

There's no "net" aspect – Jolt is an open source library