Sam Ragsdale

@samrags

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Awesome effort to make the hidden network of open source work legible. OSS is an engine of tremendous economic productivity. Deep Funding builds a weighted dependency graph of the open source ecosystem to enable fair, automated payments for sustaining developers. $170k is meaningful, but once fragmented across hundreds of repos, each will receive $50-$5k. The payment is unlikely to cover its own admin overhead. Our team at Merit Systems is focused on reducing the friction in the last mile and growing the pie. We expect automated incentives for code contributions to hit escape velocity soon. Stay posted for more details.

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The zeitgeist is circling back

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Definitely on the roadmap but not a short term priority. We're going to focus on getting Jolt on-chain with curves first.

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I can't give you a concrete timeline, but we're working on it. To start we'll mock the commitment scheme and get the sumchecks + GKR working over the Binius fields.

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July Roadmap Update TL;DR: Jolt is faster, simpler, and more usable than ever. Huge shoutout to the contributors who made this happen!

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I hear the theme next year is power rangers

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It's time to build (verifiable compute). Jolt will support many different zkVM configurations in a unified codebase. OS contributors accelerate Jolt's development but we can parallelize these efforts further. Reach out if you want to build the core infra of the future.

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New podcast: Building the Breakthrough zkVM Jolt ⚡️ In this episode, members of the a16z crypto research and engineering teams discuss their year-long close collaboration to develop the simplest, most performant zkVM to date: Jolt️⚡️ @samrags @moodlezoup @hackr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0Qap3fePI

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New Jolt feature just dropped! Jolt programs now support using the Rust Standard Library! This means that nearly all existing Rust programs are compatible with Jolt, opening up the door for new applications that make use of Rust's full ecosystem.

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Frame by @tom-major

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Our wiki is improving by the day at http://jolt.a16zcrypto.com but we're happy to provide direct support if needed

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Measure twice. Cut Once. https://github.com/a16z/jolt/issues/291

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Actually understand lifetimes? <a'> this and <b'> that. https://github.com/a16z/jolt/issues/295

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30 minutes for a Rayon wizard. https://github.com/a16z/jolt/issues/294

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Jolt has a ton of low hanging fruit waiting for the right harvester. We're teeing these up in Github issues and we'll regularly refresh. Great way to get your feet wet with ZK and play a role in the impending revolution. Examples below.

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1. decentralized network have much expensive redundant compute 2. expensive redundant compute limit throughput 3. zkVM (Jolt) compress expensive redundant compute before distribution 4. decentralized network have higher throughput

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1. decentralized network have much expensive redundant compute 2. expensive redundant compute limit throughput 3. zkVM (Jolt) compress expensive redundant compute before distribution 4. decentralized network have higher throughput

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https://github.com/OpacityLabs/jolt-tls-playground @ncitron.eth I got the hardest part of verifying TLS proofs working in Jolt. During the notarization an encoding of the transcript is made using a ChaChaRng. It's also why we can selectively disclose parts of the transcript. 0.08s for each round... :] 👏 @eddy

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Today Jolt has higher RAM usage than alternatives but that will be solved with coming changes. For iPhones we're hoping to ship Jolt on Metal at some point this year which would rip.

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