Introducing the @succinctLabs Network: a decentralized protocol to prove the world's software using zero-knowledge proofs.
It coordinates a distributed set of provers through novel "proof contests" – all-pay auctions for proving rights.
Users submit RISC-V programs with fees, and provers bid collateral to participate in contests.
Winning provers generate proofs with SP1, a co-designed zkVM, earning user fees.
Proof contests balance minimizing proving costs with encouraging a decentralized prover set.
The network aims to create a global, efficient, and robust proving infrastructure.
This incentivizes hardware acceleration, prover decentralization, and cost competition in ZK proving.