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vitalik.eth· 2025-10-16 01:23
RT Justin Drake (@drakefjustin)Progress toward real-time proving for Ethereum L1 is nothing short of extraordinary.In May, SP1 Hypercube proved 94% of L1 blocks in under 12 seconds using 160 RTX 4090s. Five months later Pico Prism proves 99.9% of the same blocks in under 12 seconds, with just 64 RTX 5090s. Average proving latency is now 6.9 seconds.Performance has outpaced Moore's law ever since Zcash pioneered practical SNARKs a decade ago. Today's Pico Prism results are a striking reminder of that exponen ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-10-15 13:58
in some sense, calling zec "encrypted bitcoin" makes sense, in that it has the same tokenomics and SoV appeal but is privatein some sense though, it will be meaningfully differenthow I first got involved in zcash was actually from a few friends asking me to read over the new scalability upgrade that was proposed, called project tachyonthis has similar roots to zk compression on solana (though is quite different) and should in theory scale the movement of ZEC throughout the network in a way that BTC couldn't ...