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Key Terms

  • Requester: An application that requests and receives ZK proofs from the Succinct Prover Network.
  • Prover: A participant in the network that generates ZK proofs.
  • $PROVE: The native token of the network, which enables payments, secures the network, and incentivizes provers.
  • Proof request: A request for a ZK proof from the network, containing:
    • The program to be proven, along with the program's inputs
    • Maximum prover gas units (computational complexity limit)
    • The proof deadline
    • The maximum $PROVE fee the requester is willing to pay
    • The provers that the requester is willing to accept the proof from
  • Reverse auction: An auction mechanism for allocating request to the lowest bidder.
  • Proof contest: An auction mechanism for allocating requests to the most efficient provers, while maintaining a degree of prover decentralization.
  • Auctioneer service: An off-chain service that coordinates requests, auctions, and proof fulfillments and settles ZK proofs of correct execution to Ethereum.