Boundless ZK mining: Proof of Verifiable Work and the ZKC reward model
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Explains Boundless's marketplace where miners earn requestor fees plus ZKC proportional to RISC-V cycles proven, with deterministic rewards from a verifiable cycle count. Covers the trader service and hardware requirements.
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Rewards are pro-rata: 2% of cycles proven equals 2% of the epoch mint
Minimum hardware: 16-thread CPU, 32GB RAM, 200GB SSD, GPU with 8GB+ VRAM, 10+ GPUs recommended
No more wasted work in PoW. Verifiable PoW is here.
TL;DR on Boundless ZK Mining
- @boundlesshq introduces a universal ZK proof marketplace connecting proof requestoooors with miners
- Miners earn twice per proof: requestor's fee + $ZKC tokens proportional to RISC-V cycles proven
- Proof of Verifiable Work (PoVW): deterministic rewards based on tamper-proof cycle count in each proof, not probabilistic mining
- $ZKC minted each epoch, distributed pro-rata (2% of total cycles = 2% of mint)
- Miners run "Trader" service: monitors jobs, auto-bids, routes to proving cluster, submits proofs, settles payments
- Competition on trading edge (job selection strategy) and hardware edge (proving efficiency)
- Minimum hardware: 16-thread CPU (3GHz+), 32GB RAM, 200GB SSD, NVIDIA GPU with 8GB+ VRAM; 10+ GPUs recommended for competitiveness
- Enables any blockchain to access verifiable compute with sustainable miner economics
Absolutely crucial infra that will allow any app to scale far beyond onchain limits, while remaining fully verifiable.
No one would have thought we get here so quickly.
Not sure if you're bullish enough anon.
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