🚀 Energy Efficiency in Proofing
Proofs are computationally expensive, but SP1 optimizes energy usage through distributed provers.
⚙️ Design
Instead of a few centralized data centers, thousands of provers share the load. PROVE incentivizes efficiency: faster, energy-optimized hardware wins more rewards.
📊 Metric
Benchmarks show proof generation can consume billions of cycles. Distributed over GPUs, the load drops per participant, lowering energy intensity per proof.
🧠 Importance
In a world conscious of sustainability, proving networks need to justify their carbon footprint. Succinct’s design pushes toward efficiency.
💡 Outlook
As specialized ZK ASICs emerge, energy cost per proof may fall dramatically.
🤔 Should energy efficiency be baked into prover incentives explicitly?