On Ep. 50 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Steven Li, Head of Strategy at RISC Zero. They talk about the use cases for zero knowledge tech in the crypto industry and the adoption for RISC Zero’s zkVM product since its launch back in June. Steven explains the bottlenecks that exist with using the zkVM product and what improvements he envisions for it over the coming months. He also shares details about a new product that his team is building called “Boundless” that will improve the decentralization of provers and solvers that can service requests from applications wanting to utilize RISC Zero’s zkVM. Finally, the two also discuss the problem with too many infrastructure projects and not enough applications in crypto and explore what catalysts are needed to move the need forward on meaningful user adoption into crypto.

Guests:

Steven Li, Head of Strategy at RISC Zero

https://x.com/Li_Steven1

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Timestamps:

(00:00:39) Background on Steven and RISC Zero

(00:02:05) Use cases for RISC Zero’s zkVM

(00:08:01) Technical challenges with RISC Zero’s zkVM

(00:13:24) Other ZK tools RISC Zero is building

(00:15:46) Introducing Boundless, RISC Zero’s decentralized verifiable compute layer

(00:19:54) Are there too many infrastructure projects and not enough apps?

(00:26:34) What use cases for ZK exist beyond crypto and blockchain?

This episode was recorded on Friday, September 13, 2024.

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