Office Hours 4: jtguibas of SuccinctLabs

In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we are joined by John Guibas from Succinct Labs to discuss the latest developments in zero-knowledge proofs and the SP1 prover system. Doria demonstrates a novel use case: a Telegram bot that generates proofs of messages within a group chat, enabling users to cryptographically verify the contents and timestamp of their conversations. The discussion explores the potential of SP1 to radically simplify the development of ZK applications by allowing developers to write programs in Rust, a popular and ergonomic language. John shares Succinct Labs' roadmap for reducing proving costs, integrating with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and their long-term vision of a decentralized proving network. Basile and Doria share insights into how Kinode's peer-to-peer infrastructure could facilitate such a network and enable a new  ...