Gevulot devnet launching March 25th 2024
Gevulot devnet is launching on the 25th of March 2024 delivering high performance proof generation and verification for registered users.
Following the announcement of Gevulot, we have been hard at work to deliver the Gevulot devnet, which is launching on the 25th of March 2024. The devnet serves as a major step on our path to building out an internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification. This post will cover the features and functionality you can expect from it, as well as the timelines for devnet and beyond.
If you’d like to participate in the Gevulot devnet, please fill in this form.
Gevulot Overview
Gevulot (pronounced “gev-you-lot”) is a decentralized compute network optimized exclusively for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification. Users can permissionlessly deploy any prover and offload compute to a network of sophisticated hardware operators.
Zero-knowledge proofs are currently being leveraged across the industry for things like succinctness (e.g. recursive blockchains), scaling (e.g. validity rollups, bridges, off-chain compute) and privacy (e.g. Aleo, Aztec, Zcash).
Gevulot is designed to aggregate proving workloads from across all these usecases, leading to better economics for all participants.
Key Benefits of Gevulot:
Cheap - Gevulot aggregates proving workloads from across the industry to better utilize the hardware resources in the network, thus improving the cost-structure for all participants.
Performant - Gevulot is exclusively optimized for the job of proving and verification. By removing all blockchain features that don’t serve this purpose, we achieve performance that is equivalent to centralized alternatives for many types of workloads.
Flexible - Gevulot supports permissionless deployment of arbitrary provers. Provers can be written in a variety of languages, such as Rust or C++ and can utilize optimizations familiar from centralized setups, like multi-threading and GPU proving.
You can read more about the network design and find instructions for integrating provers/verifiers in our docs.
Gevulot devnet
The Gevulot Devnet, our first major release, will be a permissioned network for testing the proof generation pipeline and other core functionality—including deployment, proving, verifying, networking, and orchestration.
The devnet offers the following functionality:
Deploy arbitrary provers and verifiers
Run proving workloads to generate and verify proofs
Track workload status, cancel, and retrieve outputs via an API.
Store proofs
Please refer to the Gevulot docs for more details on the above functionality and instructions on integrating provers/verifiers.
Devnet prover nodes will be operated by the following teams:
The Devnet will be free to use for registered users, but protections will be in place to protect against spam and other malicious behavior.
If you’d like to participate in the Gevulot devnet, sign up here.
Timeline
March 25th 2024 - Devnet (Permissioned): The Gevulot devnet will initially run from March 25th to the 24th of May, but may be extended until Q3-Q4 2024.
Q4 2024 - Permissionless Testnet: We are aiming to launch a permissionless testnet by the end of 2024 to pave the way for a mainnet launch in 2025. The testnet will introduce consensus and fees as well as include all core functionality for validation, proving, and the incentives in a permissionless form. You can refer to our docs regarding the planned scope for testnet.
TBD 2025 - Mainnet: We are targeting a mainnet launch in 2025.
About Gevulot
Gevulot is an internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification. It allows users to permissionlessly deploy arbitrary provers as on-chain programs and offload compute, while being cost-effective and incredibly performant.
Learn more about Gevulot here.
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