Space and Time has taken a significant step towards advancing blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) integration by unveiling its high-speed zero-knowledge prover, Proof of SQL, under an open software license. This release represents a significant breakthrough in streamlining data verification processes for blockchain applications.
The latest release from Space and Time, Proof of SQL, is now available on Github and allows developers to cryptographically validate SQL database queries, ensuring data integrity without the need for traditional trust mechanisms. This tool, as revealed by Space and Time (SxT) to Bitcoin.com News, supports both onchain and offchain datasets, paving the way for the creation of data-driven smart contracts.
With the aim of enhancing transaction verification speeds, Space and Time's prover is set to enhance the efficiency of decentralized finance (defi) protocols. Jay White, co-founder and head of research at SxT, and the creator of the Proof of SQL protocol, expressed his excitement about leading Web3 into a new era of data-driven smart contracts and the next generation of DeFi.
White highlighted the innovation of sub-second ZK proofs by the team, allowing smart contracts and AI agents to inquire about a chain's activity and offchain data, and receive trustless SQL query results onchain during a transaction instantaneously, eliminating the need for 30-minute proof times.
Space and Time emphasizes that Proof of SQL stands out by executing analytic queries over large datasets in under a second, a significant improvement compared to existing solutions with lengthy proof times. The technology is now open for community experimentation and further development, with promises of significant enhancements over generalized zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) and co-processors in handling large data volumes.
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