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A novel asynchronous consensus protocol leverages a binding Index Cover Gather primitive and simple hash functions to achieve optimal fault tolerance and constant rounds, eliminating complex public-key cryptography.

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→Computational Integrity

→Folding Schemes

→ZK Rollup Scaling

Recursive Proof Composition Achieves Logarithmic-Time Zero-Knowledge Verification

A novel folding scheme reduces the verification of long computations to a logarithmic function, fundamentally decoupling security from computational scale.

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→Proof Systems

→Computation Integrity

→Cryptographic Primitives

Goldwasser-Kalai-Rothblum Protocol Turbocharges Verifiable Computation Efficiency

A new proof system architecture uses the sumcheck protocol to commit only to inputs and outputs, achieving logarithmic verification time for layered computations, drastically scaling ZK-EVMs.

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→Cryptographic Efficiency

→Verifiable Computation

→Distributed Proving

Linear-Time Zero-Knowledge Provers Unlock Universal Verifiable Computation

A linear-time ZKP prover mechanism achieves optimal computational efficiency, fundamentally enabling scalable, trustless verification for all decentralized applications.

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→Distributed ZKP System

→Trustless Computation

→Cryptographic Security

Distributed ZK Proof Generation Unlocks Practical Rollup Scalability

Pianist, a fully distributed ZKP system, parallelizes proof generation to resolve the prover bottleneck, enabling hyper-scalable, practical ZK-Rollup architectures.

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→Systemic Security Failure

→Post-Quantum Cryptography

→Ledger Immutability

Quantum Harvest Threat Exposes Historical Ledger Privacy Failure

HNDL formalizes the quantum risk where adversaries harvest today's encrypted DLT data, rendering historical privacy impossible to guarantee.

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→Private Policy Enforcement

→Cryptographic Primitives

→Zkat Primitive

Zero-Knowledge Authenticators Secure Private Policy on Public Blockchains

The Zero-Knowledge Authenticator (zkAt) is a new cryptographic primitive that enables users to prove transaction authenticity against complex private policies without revealing the policy logic or identity, unlocking private on-chain governance.

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→Verifiable Delay Functions

→Fair Transaction Ordering

→Time-Lock Puzzles

Collaborative VDFs Enable Multi-Party Time-Lock and Fair Decentralized Protocols

Collaborative Verifiable Delay Functions introduce a new primitive for joint, publicly verifiable time-delay, securing fair multi-party mechanism design.

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→Throughput

→State Machine Replication

→Resource Efficiency

Epidemic Consensus Protocol Unlocks Extreme-Scale Decentralization

A new consensus protocol leveraging epidemic-style communication eliminates fixed validators, achieving superior throughput and latency for extreme-scale networks.

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→Batched Identity Encryption

→Transaction Ordering Fairness

→Constant Cost Cryptography

Constant-Cost Threshold Decryption Secures Private Transaction Batching Efficiency

This new cryptographic primitive enables constant-cost key issuance for private transaction batches, fundamentally solving the scalability problem of encrypted mempools.