We're excited to share a new kind of computing platform with the world – one that can't lie about anything it does. RISC Zero enables any developer to build zero-knowledge proofs that can be executed and verified on any modern computer in the languages they are most familiar with.
RISC Zero is the first fully free-and-open-source general-purpose ZK computing platform. Our prover and verifier are available under the Apache2 license, along with several simple but powerful examples of this technology written in Rust and C++.
RISC Zero is a fully-compliant software implementation of the RISC-V microarchitecture (RV32IM). The RISC-V ISA is implemented as a set of polynomial constraints inside a zk-STARK based proving system.
RISC Zero is zero-knowledge virtual machine that can run on any platform. It's a virtual microcontroller / co-processor that produces receipts for every program it runs, kind of like a secure virtual Adruino. These receipts can be verified at anytime by anyone in milliseconds – even if you don't trust the party that executed the code.
Our initial release of RISC Zero is different in a few critical ways:
We are working on several exciting projects internally that will be announced, explained, and released over the coming months. Please join our Discord or follow us on Twitter