Fermah Powers Proof Generation for Scroll

TL;DR

Fermah has integrated with Scroll to deliver cheap, fast, and decentralized proof generation. This partnership marks a significant step toward Scroll's vision of achieving Ethereum-level decentralization and censorship resistance.

Building the Open Economy

Scroll’s vision is to build an Open Economy—a decentralized ecosystem where innovation thrives and collaboration flourishes, enabling meaningful solutions for both global and local communities. To achieve this vision, Scroll relies on robust infrastructure that upholds the highest standards of decentralization and censorship resistance, aligning with Ethereum’s foundation of trustless computing.

Proof generation is a crucial enabler of this infrastructure, where cost-efficiency, high speed, and reliability are paramount. Achieving these goals demands the careful orchestration of proving tasks, efficient execution, optimal incentives, and a lean mechanism for provers. 

This is where Scroll’s integration with Fermah comes into play.

The Scroll Proving Pipeline

Scroll generates proofs in a three-step pipeline:

1. Chunk Proofs: Chunks are a list of traces of ordered transactions. Chunk proofs prove chunks, which consist of many blocks
2. Batch Proofs: Prove adjacent chunks
3. Bundle Proofs: Prove adjacent batches. These proofs can be verified on Ethereum

Fermah’s universal proof generation capabilities power this entire pipeline, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and scalability at each stage.

Fermah Abstracts Away the Complexity of Proof Generation

Managing a decentralized network of provers is a complex challenge. It involves:

• Orchestrating proving jobs efficiently
• Maintaining robust and decentralized infrastructure

Fermah addresses these challenges by providing:

1. Intelligent orchestration of proving jobs
2. Cheap and fast proof generation with lean mechanism design
3. Decentralized proving infrastructure

By integrating Fermah, Scroll gains the ability to efficiently handle the critical proof-generation tasks required for its zkEVM and broader ecosystem.

Fermah’s Role in Enabling the Open Economy

The recent release of the Scroll SDK is a game-changer for solving Ethereum’s fragmentation. This toolkit allows developers to deploy their own ZK-rollup chains while maintaining interoperability with the broader Scroll ecosystem.

Fermah plays a vital role in this expansion. 

By providing cheap and fast proof generation, Fermah ensures that this function never becomes a bottleneck, whether for Scroll’s mainnet or new chains built using the Scroll SDK. Projects can simply send Fermah a proof request and receive their proofs back reliably, making it easier to focus on building innovative products.

How It Works: Fermah’s Integration with Scroll

Let’s dive into the workflow by which Fermah generates proofs for Scroll.

1. Job Dispatch: The Scroll network identifies when new proofs are needed (for chunks, batches, or bundles) and makes these tasks available to proof markets through the Scroll coordinator.
2. Job Capture: Fermah's Scroll Proving SDK listens for tasks from the Scroll coordinator, translates them into Fermah proof requests, and submits these requests to the Fermah Core.
3. Orchestrate: The Fermah Core processes these requests and assigns intensive computational tasks to prover nodes.
4. Prove: Using Docker containers, the selected prover node performs the computations and sends the proof back to the Fermah Core, which forwards it to the Fermah Scroll Proving SDK.
5. Verify: Finally, the Scroll Proving SDK submits the proof to the Scroll Coordinator for verification. Once verified, the Coordinator returns the status to the Scroll Network, completing the proof cycle.

The Universal Proof Market

Fermah is a universal proof market capable of generating proofs for any proof system, chain, or VM. Its integration with Scroll showcases this versatility. 

Developers don’t need to manage the complexities of proof generation infrastructure themselves; Fermah handles the entire pipeline, ensuring that you get cheap, fast, and reliable proofs.

Come Build the Future With Us

You don’t need to worry about the complexities of proof generation. Fermah allows you to just focus on building innovative products.

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