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Road to ZK Implementation: Nethermind Client's Path to Proofs
// inside head tag TL;DR: Zero-knowledge proofs have moved from the research lab to a production necessity. For Ethereum-compatible chains and L2 sequencers, they represent the next chapter of performance, modularity, and trustless verification.
This binary strips away everything non-essential — no networking, no consensus, no extra runtime features, leaving a lean target that is more efficient to prove inside a zkVM. We also had to rebuild Alpine Linux packages without hard floating point support, which meant carefully patching out many modules, including parts of the C runtime. The main challenge will be re-creating the infrastructure: building an Alpine Linux rootfs for riscv32, upgrading and reusing .NET patches from earlier feasibility research work, and handling packaging, which can be difficult without direct upstream support.
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