[Core] Explore new proof system

[thomas-nguy]

Some resources

https://github.com/matter-labs/era-boojum
https://github.com/matter-labs/era-boojum-validator-cli

[JayT106]

This article has better explanation of this new proof system and current status.
https://zksync.mirror.xyz/HJ2Pj45EJkRdt5Pau-ZXwkV2ctPx8qFL19STM5jdYhc

[thomas-nguy]

The main repository has been updated to use the new proof system in parallel with the old one (double verification mechanism)

I will try some experimentation to see if I can make it work independently of the old one

[thomas-nguy]

To run the new prover:

First start the system as usual with
zk init

Then run the zk server to generate artifacts zk server

The zk server will create two tasks

• One task is for the prover server zk_prover
• Another task is for the new prover server zk_prover_fri

We can ignore the first task, and focus on the second one.

The task is stored in a special db table prover_fri and we need to run the prover_fri binary to generate the proof

./bin/zk f cargo +nightly run --release --bin zksync_prover_fri

this is currently failing because of the cargo project dependency. Boojum expect arrayvec > v0.6.x but the project use arrayvec ^v0.4 )

[JayT106]

this is currently failing because of the cargo project dependency. Boojum expect arrayvec > v0.6.x but the project use arrayvec ^v0.4 )

The blake2 libraries (blake2s_const, blake2s_simd) are using arrayvec v0.5 and blake2-rfc_bellman_edition is using arrayvec v0.4 but looks like they haven't released the source code yet.