Gevulot Firestarter is LIVE
The first production-ready universal proving network has ignited TODAY!
We are excited to announce that Firestarter, the first production-ready universal proving network, is now LIVE.
For months we have been working with and running provers for teams like Aztec, Scroll & ZkSync and are now taking those learnings to bring ludicrously cheap proving compute to the entire ZK ecosystem.
Introducing Firestarter
Firestarter is a high-performance compute network optimized for ZK. It is designed to scale to thousands of prover nodes handling both CPU and GPU workloads, as well as incorporate new hardware as that becomes available. Users can generate proofs using one of the pre-deployed provers, such as Risc0, SP1, Nexus, Aztec, ZKsync, Starkware, Linea, Scroll & Polygon or by deploying their own. Firestarter also has out-of-the-box integrations to Polygon CDK and ZK Stack chains coming soon.
Under the hood, Firestarter is an end-to-end implementation of Gevulot’s ZkCloud mainnet, just running in a permissioned fashion. The full system is made up of a blazingly fast CometBFT-based chain, which handles Credits, workload allocation and monitoring, and a network of prover nodes that provide compute for generating ZK proofs.
See our docs to start integrating today!
New Features
1. New developer experience - Containers! We’ve rebuilt the Gevulot node from the ground up for Firestarter to support provers deployed as containers that now run in a Linux VM. This considerably streamlines prover and verifier deployment as developers don’t need to learn any new development patterns or tools.
2. Infrastructure that scales - Firestarter is designed to be able to support thousands of prover nodes with minimal overhead making it ideal for large-scale parallelized workloads such as parallel RISC0 segment proving or Aztec proof tree construction.
3. Ludicrously cheap - Gevulot prover node hardware is designed to give the end-user the best bang for their buck without sacrificing performance. Furthermore, the user can define the exact resource requirements for their workload and only pay for what they use, leading to ~95% cheaper compute costs vs traditional cloud.
4. Blockchain-backend for credits - Payment for Firestarter compute happens with Credits. Firestarter is running a full Cosmos SDK-based chain in the background which functions as an accounting layer for the platform.
5. Not-A-Node-Sale - The Not-A-Node-Sale offers early adopters the chance to rent GPUs running fractions or full nodes in Firestarter starting at $160/month, enabling smaller investors to earn token rewards often only reserved for highly technical and capitalized developers or organizations.
Start using Gevulot Firestarter today by purchasing Credits. You don’t need a lot to get started, because compute on Firestarter is incredibly cheap.
Pricing
You can purchase Firestarter Credits with a credit card today to start using the platform for proving. 1 Credit is equal to 1 US Dollar.
Once you purchase Credits, you’ll receive them in your public address to spend on compute fees. The amount of Credits you need for a given workload depends on the workload-specific resource requirements, such as CPU cores, RAM, GPU and compute time.
Pricing examples:
CPU Workload:
CPU cores: 96
RAM: 768GBÂ
Max Running Time: 10 minutes
Cost = 0.10 Credits = $0.10
GPU Workload:
CPU cores: 32
RAM: 192GB
GPU: 1 (max 2)
Max Running Time: 5 minutes
Cost = 0.035 Credits = $0.035
Run a prover node
We are currently onboarding incentivized prover nodes to Firestarter. You can see the hardware requirements and details regarding incentives below. If you’d like to run hardware for Firestarter and earn rewards you can sign up:
Note: Not available to US entities and persons.
Not-A-Node-Sale
Firestarter is the world’s first production-ready proving network. To bootstrap hardware supply and allow the whole community to participate, we are running a campaign where we rent out fully managed Firestarter GPU worker nodes. These worker nodes are eligible for mainnet token rewards, which will go to the renting party. Renters don’t need to do anything regarding the operations of the hardware. Just sit back and relax in the knowledge that you’ve helped bring Firestarter to life.
Note: Not available to US entities and persons.
Looking ahead
We believe ZK will come to define the next decade in blockchain computing by unlocking large-scale, low-cost compute on-chain. We are delivering this future early with Firestarter, but there’s still a lot more to do. Proof systems will become more efficient, purpose-built hardware will deliver multiples better performance and the technology stack will mature as a whole. Gevulot aims to provide the platform by which these improvements are delivered to developers at scale, thus continuously lowering the cost structure and unlocking new use cases for ZK and the blockchain industry as a whole.
Next, we’re targeting a public testnet in the coming months, followed by mainnet launch in Q1. Follow us on X/Twitter or join our Discord to stay up to date with our progress.
Onwards.
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