@ircrp 16 December 2022

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have recently gained a lot of attention in the crypto community for their potential to address problems in privacy and scaling. However, one major limitation of current ZKP systems is that generating a proof can be very slow and costly. This is because it requires a significant amount of computation, which can make it expensive to generate proofs for complex programs. As a result, the range of applications for which ZKPs can be used today is limited. To improve this situation, researchers are examining various ways to accelerate the proof generation process. This includes looking at ways to use specialized hardware, minimizing the amount of data needed to create a proof, and finding ways to make the process more efficient through parallelization and optimization. By addressing these issues, it may be possible to make ZKPs a more feasible solution for a wider range of applications.