Ingonyama joins the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council
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ZkBoost is a generic abstraction for outsourced proving. In practice, it is a kind of proxy node that proving services and networks can integrate with, providing a single, standardized API for projects in need of proof generation to access all proving options.
The purpose of the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council is to collaboratively develop standards for proof supply chain abstraction. We invite all ZK-rollups and proving services to unite in architecting and funding ZkBoost, a generic abstraction for outsourced proving.
Currently, 42 companies have now opted to join the Governing Council, which consists of a diversified group of organizations and enterprises including Layer 1s, other major Layer 2 partners, and a multitude of prover networks. With a range of industry roles, all companies who have vowed to participate are collectively committed to governing and extending ZkBoost’s capabilities, with the core mission of bringing decentralization to the proof supply chain.
We’re excited to announce that Ingonyama, a next-generation semiconductor company building specialized hardware for Zero-Knowledge Proofs, has joined the ZkBoost Consortium. The Council Seat will be held by Omer Shlomovits, CEO of Ingonyama. Omer is a serial entrepreneur whose research is aimed at tackling real-world, difficult problems using novel cryptography.
Ingonyama’s mission is to lower the barrier of entry to ZKPs by making them inexpensive, accessible, and fast. By developing specialized hardware accelerators, Ingonyama strives to drive widespread adoption of ZKPs across various industries.
Ingonyama's commitment to democratizing ZKPs is exemplified by their development of ICICLE, a hardware agnostic library for ZK acceleration. ICICLE is an essential tool for cryptographers, developers and researchers focused on advancing compute-intensive cryptography. It provides a unified API that allows developers to run cryptographic primitives across various compute backends, including GPUs and CPUs, with minimal adjustments. This flexibility significantly reduces proving times and optimizes performance, making ZKP implementation more practical for a wider audience.
Ingonyama envisions a future where ZKP hardware is ubiquitous, integrated into data centers, mobile devices, blockchain nodes, and IoT devices. They believe that by 2025, ZKPs will play a crucial role in enhancing data security, scalability, and privacy across various sectors. Ingonyama’s goal is to lead this transformation by providing the necessary hardware infrastructure to support widespread ZKP adoption.
Ingonyama joined the ZkBoost Consortium to advance the standardization and accessibility of ZKP technologies. By collaborating with leading blockchain innovators, Ingonyama aims to integrate its hardware acceleration solutions into a unified proving framework, enhancing the efficiency and scalability of ZKP implementations. This partnership aligns with Ingonyama's mission to lower the barriers to ZKP adoption, making them more accessible and practical for a broader range of applications.
ZkCloud is funding early work on ZkBoost, but our goal is for this to be a public good, open-source software. To formalize how this implementation should be governed to ensure neutrality, apply to join the Governing Council of the ZkBoost Consortium.
We’ll be announcing the rest of the Governing Council members weekly over the coming quarter, so stay tuned to learn more about the folks participating in this innovative initiative.
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About Them:
Ingonyama is a next-generation semiconductor company focused on Zero-Knowledge Proof hardware acceleration. Using a broad, multidisciplinary approach and a deep understanding of the ZK landscape, Ingonyama focuses on finding and solving computational bottlenecks in ZKPs.
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