Thanks to Kev, Maryam, Mike, Thomas Thiery, Thomas Coratger, Maria, Caspar, Ladislaus, Marios, George, Mary, and Dmitry for feedback and discussions that led to this post (feedback ≠ endorsement). When Ethereum implements a zkEVM on the L1, it will be necessary to source proofs for blocks. This post proposes to implement a prover market on Ethereum: It allows builders to connect with a permissionless set of provers. Builders, with help from the Ethereum protocol, deposit a prize for proofs ...
