Running Small Prover Jobs: My Ops Notes
I tried submitting micro-jobs to see how provers bid and how proofs were delivered. The ops flow was surprisingly market-like: job submission, proposer bids, prover computes, and then a succinct proof is returned and verified. Latency varied by workload; simple arithmetic proofs came back quickly, while ML inference proofs naturally took longer. The transparent bidding mechanism helped me estimate costs; I could choose faster, more expensive provers or cheaper, slower ones. For small projects this flexibility matters: you pick the economics that match the user experience. Ops-wise, I documented the steps, added retries, and logged receipts to simplify audits; that discipline made the system predictable enough for a pilot deployment.
