The Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) Announces Leap Forward in ZK Proof Computation

Wanted to highlight improvements in zk proof computation that has potential benefits across all zk-proof based chains and protocols in the Ethereum ecosystem and elsewhere. The work was led by Supranational.

The Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) Announces Leap Forward in ZK Proof Computation

The Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) recently released cryptographic processing improvements that benefit zero-knowledge proof (zk proofs) processing within the Filecoin network, and the broader Web3 infrastructure stack. These advances optimized several key computational algorithms, as well as improved CPU and GPU processing flows to reduce cost and improve performance by up to 80%. Select advancements, specifically C2 optimizations, are now in production in the Filecoin network.

This type of zk proof compute specialization is one of the firsts of its kind in the Web3 space, but is likely to be replicated across networks that are heavily zk-proof dependent. This particular approach of using and optimizing GPUs holds great promise for reducing costs and compute times not just within the Filecoin Network, but across the entire Web3 ecosystem.

The DSA brings together technology industry leaders to help enterprises make the transition to decentralized storage technologies through reference architectures, standards, education, advocacy, and best practices. The work was part of an initiative by the DSA to improve performance and energy usage within the Filecoin network and was led by Supranational, a US-based firm that designs and develops hardware accelerated cryptography for verifiable and confidential computing.

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