Wyatt Benno

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Technical founders — embrace your inner polymath.

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If A 'ZK'-Prover Network Asks For Your Data. Don’t Give It to Them 🧐 In this post I discuss delegated proving, CoSnarks, zkMPC, zkFHE, schemes that support fast client-side proving, while offloading the expensive prover work to untrusted provers. https://blog.icme.io/zk-prover-networks-want-your-data-dont-give-it-to-them-2/ I argue that prover networks and zkVM should support privacy as a default and the general structure of prover networks.

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China’s eery silence? Not responding with retaliatory tariffs seems to be a good response. 10% brunt paid by US consumers while domestic consumers in China are completely unaffected. Moreover if the yuan becomes weaker as a result of a trade war their products seem more desirable, increasing the lot of many in China. US seems like unreliable trading partner.. etc etc. US side needs a clear strategy..

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Strategic Bitcoin Reserves (SBRs) are a nation-state prisoner’s dilemma. First movers gain, laggards pay more, and suppression is a losing strategy. The Nash equilibrium? Everyone eventually stacks sats. Is the game starting?🎲

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Open-sourcing the world's first zkVM that can work in small places (browsers and such).. https://x.com/wyatt_benno/status/1884693157226463559

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So we all know about zkp with TEE: Yeah. It’s been something called zkDCAP (for SGX) where TEE attestation proofs are too large to fit into blockchain, so we use zk on top to make it more succinct.)

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Imagine if you had zero knowledge while reading this based assessment 😂 It would have to be about some sort of dance move.. or something. https://x.com/succinctjt/status/1882435768632947031?s=46&t=TPz4beAkRLUXoHXHetMIxA

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Almost all existing 'prover' networks are focused on Validity proofs; This is where early demand has been seen. But is it total demand? == Want the best == If the provers are specialized proving scheme that can earn a premium, they beat generic schemes on all tasks. Decentralization in this case is to make sure the innovators in the network get paid (DeSci of sorts but based on maths). Same applies to advanced hardware provers. 1/2

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What happened in ‘folding’ scheme since 2022? 1. Snark recursion is replaced with ‘folding’ 2022 (KST22) for more efficient IVC. 2. Can use Plonkish, CSS, Air, not just R1CS. 3. Smaller verifier circuit for more efficient recursion. 4. Multifolding, / parallel folding. 5. Non uniform circuit IVC. 6. Can use smaller fields with Lattice or Hashes (post quantum secure). 7. Efficient on-chain verification. (MicroNova) 8. Specialized folding scheme for various scenario …. The story of incremental verifiable computation (IVC) from 2008 (Valiant) to 2025~ 🤯 https://x.com/wyatt_benno/status/1881329005229486449?s=46&t=TPz4beAkRLUXoHXHetMIxA

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Being introduced as a 'serial' founder is actually pretty ridiculous.. For one, "ser, most of the founders I know have been founding all along.." Small win, big win, pivots and all. Secondly, first time founders can easily become serial founders. Many roads 😜 'Technical Founder' is my new go2.

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Google team contributing to zkECDSA is bullish 🔥🔥We are using something similar for the zkBasename PoC but with modified Spartan. There are similar prover times for zkECDSA (4s) with elliptic curves schemes, but this would be much faster (~1s). EC schemes are cheaper to verify on-chain. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/2010

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Good highlight on how to get fast client-side ZK for Base. https://x.com/NovaNet_zkp/status/1877769892499480688

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@apex777.eth Hey! I want to make a Channel for all ZK and privacy tools on Base. Mind making a post here to help get it started? https://warpcast.com/~/channel/privacy-on-base/join?inviteCode=F2I_D3YJszWa-IRBzuD2uA

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Some of my thoughts on NIVC.

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A channel to discuss privacy ideas for Base network. Starting with initial ideas from @jessepollak https://warpcast.com/jessepollak/0x0b6abea4

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Killer apps that want to use ZK often don't care about ZK for scalability. They care about ZK for privacy or for verifiable compute where they otherwise would not have it. Non-uniform incremental verifiable computation (NIVC) is AWESOME! It is the bedrock, that supports apps that use ZK for consumer-side / privacy / and DePin. Let's understand what it is and why its useful. 🤯 Read: https://blog.icme.io/pick-prove-profit-the-nivc-singularity-2/ Or read thread 1/n

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If life was an RPG, there would be a role called “builder”.. and the top level would be called peak builder 🦾.

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First lattice based folding scheme implementation 👀 https://x.com/nethermindeth/status/1872494705839374681?s=46&t=TPz4beAkRLUXoHXHetMIxA

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NIVC - non uniform incremental verifiable computation is a way to piece-meal computations and provide one succinct proof of the full computation. It BLOWS my mind that there is only one NIVC based prover network to date: NovaNet. And this year we will be bringing truth and client side ZK to the masses.

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We need more studies on how AI reshapes GDP growth — does it supercharge the Solow model, amplify Romer’s knowledge spillovers, or spark a new Schumpeterian wave of creative destruction? It could become another form of capital.

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