Matter Labs Launches Airbender Prover, Validating Ethereum Blocks in 35 Seconds
Matter Labs introduced its new cryptographic prover "Airbender" at the Permissionless conference. Airbender is designed for the layer-2 network ZKsync and generates zero-knowledge proofs crucial for linking to Ethereum.
- Airbender delivers Ethereum block proofs in 35 seconds using a single GPU, surpassing competitors' speeds.
- Faster transaction speeds can reduce fees to fractions of a cent, benefiting micropayments, high-frequency trading, and decentralized social applications.
- The open-sourced zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) is based on RISC-V, a programming framework proposed by Vitalik Buterin for improved blockchain efficiency.
- An app for developers to test Airbender is available, with plans for integration into a protocol upgrade pending governance approval later this summer.
Gluchowski emphasized that Airbender represents a foundational step towards an interconnected system of verifiable chains.