On Wednesday (31st), the cross-chain messaging protocol Wormhole unveiled its Wormhole ZK roadmap, outlining several key developments and partnerships aimed at integrating zero-knowledge (ZK) technology:
Introduction of Cryptography Expertise: The Wormhole Foundation has disbursed contributor grants to four newly formed engineering teams specializing in ZK cryptography and will release related announcements in the coming weeks.
Introduction of Hardware Resources: Wormhole contributors will collaborate with a strategic hardware supplier to accelerate the implementation of multiple light clients. This initiative aims to provide hardware accelerators to Wormhole contributors as support channels and ZK verification message volumes continue to expand.
Upcoming Light Clients: Light clients allow users and applications to rapidly and efficiently verify blockchain network states, such as current account balances and smart contract data. Wormhole plans to deploy ZK light clients targeting blockchains like Ethereum, Sui, Aptos, Near, and Cosmos over the next few months. These will be integrated with Wormhole to achieve trustless bidirectional data transmission.
Wormhole states that the goal of the ZK roadmap is to implement multiple improvements for the protocol, including increasing flexibility by supporting various verification mechanisms beyond Wormhole Guardians. Secondly, through accelerated ZK proofs and light client integration, the roadmap aims to advance protocol minimal trust.
Furthermore, Wormhole ZK will allow more efficient scaling to accommodate rapid, permissionless integration with new blockchains, offering stronger multi-chain composability for clients. This will enable easier development of richer, more expressive applications across a range of blockchains with different semantics.
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