Boundless
summary
Boundless is a universal ZK protocol that routes off‑chain execution to a decentralized marketplace of provers, using RISC Zero’s risk-5 ZKVM and hardware/GPU acceleration to push proving costs below on‑chain gas even on low‑cost chains. It ships extensions: steel runs unmodified Solidity views off‑chain with proofs anchored to block roots, and kalyua supports both ZK fault and validity rollups. Testnet is live with bonded provers; mainnet aims to launch this year.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction: Jeremy Bruestle & RISC Zero
- 0:46Boundless Overview: A Universal ZK Protocol
- 2:56ZK VMs & RISC-V Performance Enhancements
- 4:37Engineering Gains & GPU Acceleration
- 6:50Off-Chain Execution vs On-Chain Gas Costs
- 8:44“Steel”: Running Solidity Off-Chain
- 9:48“Kalyua”: Rollups & ZK Verification
- 11:26Data Availability & Decentralized Proofs
- 15:57Boundless Marketplace & Prover Incentives
- 17:05Atomic Composability & Asynchronous Calls
- 20:55Testnet Phase, Mainnet Plans & Future Vision
- 21:27Conclusion & Next Steps in ZK Execution
