Meet our new partner Gevulot! Gevulot is a fully permissionless and programmable Layer-1 blockchain built by the founder of Equilibrium Group.
In this review, we’ll take a look at what Gevulot is, how it works, and what makes it truly unique. We will take a detailed look at the main advantages and features and tell how it can be useful for supporting the blockchain network.
What is Gevulot and how does it work?
Gevulot is the first credibly neutral decentralized prover layer for the modular stack, designed with the vision to make proving decentralized, performant, and cost-effective. Its internet-scale compute network is optimized exclusively for zero-knowledge proving and verification.
Gevulot enables new applications utilizing provable computing to become economically viable. At the same time, it ensures that providers achieve maximum resource efficiency and revenue by aggregating workloads across the industry.
Similar to other PoS blockchains, Gevulot has balances, transfers, and staking with the native token, as well as proof system deployment, which resembles smart contract deployment. However, the two main differences from most other blockchains are that Gevulot lacks a traditional smart contract state, and computation verification is done through validating ZKPs rather than re-execution.
Competitive advantages of Gevulot
Let’s take a look at the main features that will ensure fast and reliable work in a decentralized network.
1. High-performance
Gevulot offers speed and efficiency through its lightweight layer 1 network optimized specifically for zk-proving and verification. Furthermore, Gevulot optimizes computation by distributing the proving workload to a small subset of provers.
2. Liveness and execution guarantees
The network ensures high liveness and reliable execution guarantees through its economic security strategies and mechanisms, such as customizable redundancy, fallback mechanisms, and the use of VRF for distributing work among provers.
3. Censorship resistance
Beside being truly decentralized, Gevulot utilizes a verifiable random function (VRF) for leader selection among validators and workload distribution among provers to mitigate the risk of censorship.
4. Low and predictable fees
The networks can scale horizontally, without increasing the cost structure. The user sets the maximum fee depending on how many cycles they want the program to run for. This helps teams forecast their costs and enables them to give a better experience to their end users.
5. Fair workload distribution
Gevulot distributes the proving workload to small groups of provers rather than choosing a single prover per task. This ensures viability as long as at least one of the group provers can generate the proof within the specified time.
Current stack and how it works
Programs on Gevulot come in two varieties: provers and verifiers. Users can permissionlessly deploy any arbitrary prover and verifier program on Gevulot, similarly to deploying a smart contract on Ethereum. Programs can be written in various programming languages.
Gevulot’s dual-node architecture includes two primary node types: provers and validators. All provers are part of the global prover set. Nested within the global prover set, custom prover sets enable a modular approach for data storage and allow the integration of distinct external software for various use cases.
The first version of process flow:
- Users submit proving workloads as transactions,
- Validators process transactions,
- Validators order them into blocks and broadcast workloads to provers,
- The selected prover completes proving workloads
- All provers participate in verifying proofs.
- Finality reached on Gevulot.
The second version of process flow:
- Users submit proving workloads.
- Validators process workload txs, order them into blocks and broadcast them to provers.
- The selected prover generates the proof and submits it to the mempool. The proof can already be shared with the user if verification is done on Ethereum or elsewhere.
- All provers participate in verifying proofs.
- Once 2/3 has verified proof, it is bundled into a block.
- Finality reached on Gevulot.
This system ensures data integrity and verifiability and improves the scalability of operations in various programming environments.
Who are the users of Gevulot?
Gevulot is a cost-effective and highly performant proving solution for any protocol or application that utilizes provable computing. While the future may bring new use cases, some examples today include Validity Rollups, Privacy Rollups, different implementations of ZkVMs, ZK-bridges and ZK Mining.
Future of Gelulot
Gevulot aims to revolutionize decentralized proof generation by significantly reducing the cost of proving through the aggregation of workloads across various use cases. Its architecture and economic model are designed to adapt to the rising proof demand.
Gevulot’s core values are low cost, high performance and availability, permissionless deployment, and credibility neutrality. As a result, all these features help Gevulot become the leading ZK cloud compute infrastructure. Gevulot is set to empower developers and projects in shaping a decentralized future where provable computing, privacy and efficiency are paramount.
Everstake and Gevulot Partnership
Everstake is excited to announce a partnership with Gevulot to strengthen our collaboration in the blockchain ecosystem. As we launch this initiative on the testnet, Everstake plans to participate as a validator and prover node operator.
Gevulot: Conclusion
Gevulot has a special approach and is designed to make proving decentralized, productive and cost-effective. Thanks to this, Gevulot is ready to change the approach to decentralized applications and emerge as a leader in the modular stack infrastructure, promoting a more accessible blockchain environment.
By establishing a new partnership with Everstake, Gevulot continues to advance its mission to make effective tools accessible and efficient for all users of the blockchain ecosystem.
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