Succinct To enter the serious realm of finance and public infrastructure, validation itself needs to be 'audited'. This means that three links must simultaneously hold: reproducible, traceable, and degradable. Reproducibility relies on version locks and test vectors, pinning circuits and parameters to specific commit IDs; traceability depends on proof metadata and audit logs, allowing any validation to be replayed afterwards; degradability allows for delayed validation or low-cost paths to deliver results first when upstream data is delayed or the network is congested, clearly marking the status, with subsequent supplementary proofs being written back. What users see is not failure, but order.
Task classification is easier to implement: batch aggregation emphasizes downward unit cost curves, online verification emphasizes the 95th and 99th percentile delays entering the inconspicuous range, and complex reasoning emphasizes stable input distribution and clear boundary conditions. Correspondingly, the routing engine makes decisions using ternary signals: queue depth, end-to-end delay, and unit cost. When pressure rises, it automatically switches to a low-latency path with multiple provers, and returns to energy-saving mode during off-peak times; all switches require strong constraints for state consistency to avoid the temptation of 'fast but inaccurate'.
Finally, write 'elegant failure' into the manual: trigger thresholds, fallback levels, user prompts, recovery conditions. Before going live, inject exceptions once to ensure the state machine can smoothly complete its run. In retrospection, do not just look at averages; pull out the tails and list 'evidence attachment degree' as a scoring item: whether the proposal has attached verifiable results, whether the deployment has a rollback plan, and whether the retrospection corresponds to the boundaries. Succinct's moat is not in a single display of skill, but in making reproducible certainty cheaper over time, and being habitually chosen by the team.
