ZPrize: Making Real-Time ZK Proofs a Reality

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​ZPrize: Making Real-Time ZK Proofs a Reality

​🗓️ Feb 28

​​​🕙 10:00 - 10:25 AM

​​📌 Captain Ethereum Stage, BUIDLHub

​The dawn of real-time zero-knowledge proving! This talk covers our state-of-the-art work, accelerating end-to-end proving of a Plonk-ish ZKP on GPUs and FPGAs. We achieved a 900x speedup over the baseline. We will compare GPUs and FPGAs and discuss the lessons learned and key takeaways.

​About Niall Emmart

​​Niall Emmart is a co-founder of Snarkify and head of GPU engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with expertise in BigNum arithmetic, algorithms, and GPU optimization. He has excelled in ZPrizecompetitions, earning first place in numerous categories.

About Tony Wu

Tony Wu is a hardware engineer at Ingonyama. He specializes in building FPGA accelerators and loves to work at the intersection between software and hardware. He has spent the last 2.5 years researching Zero Knowledge Proof acceleration on a variety of hardware (ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs).

About Snarkify:

​Snarkify is the leading high-performance Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) computing company, specialized in GPU-accelerated proof generation. With deep expertise in cryptographic optimization and large-scale GPU computing, Snarkify delivers the most efficient and cost-effective proving services to secure every on-chain transaction with ZK. As the only team to have won six top honors at ZPrize—an industry-wide competition for ZK performance optimization—Snarkify is at the forefront of enabling real-time proving and unlocking native rollups for Ethereum in 2025.