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Sublinear Verification Time

Definition

Sublinear Verification Time describes a system where the time required to confirm the validity of a computation or data grows slower than the size of the data itself. In the context of blockchain and cryptographic proofs, this refers to the highly efficient property where verifying a large amount of information takes significantly less time than processing or generating that information. Technologies like zero-knowledge proofs often achieve sublinear verification, allowing a network to confirm the correctness of complex computations with minimal computational overhead. This is crucial for scaling decentralized systems and reducing the burden on validators.