Interoperability platform Wormhole leverages AMD’s enterprise-grade FPGA hardware accelerator chips to scale cross-chain communications. The project will leverage AMD’s Alveo U55C and U250 adaptive accelerator cards to increase the capacity of secure cross-chain messages using zero-knowledge proofs.
Wormhole, a bridge solution connecting more than 30 blockchains, has integrated zero-knowledge proofs into its platform. We are developing a “light client” implementation for secure transfers between various chains using ZKP. The goal is to create a secure “corridor” between blockchains for messaging.
However, this requires significant computing power to generate and verify evidence across the network. This is where AMD chips come into play. These FPGA chips are widely used for compute-intensive tasks such as training machine learning models. Wormhole is optimizing its platform for AMD chips.
“AMD plays a critical role in this effort by providing enterprise-grade FPGA and GPU hardware and lending deep hardware expertise to Wormhole ZK engineers to ensure efficiency and speed,” said Dan Reecer, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Wormhole Foundation. “He said.
AMD’s contribution to this project extends beyond providing hardware. We will also share our expertise in hardware acceleration to improve the scalability of applications developed within the Wormhole ecosystem.
ZK-based light client
In the coming months, organizations contributing to Wormhole will begin releasing mainnet deployments of various zero-knowledge (ZK) light clients. Last week, Wormhole revealed the following: Collaboration with Succinct LabsImproves development and performance of Ethereum-based ZK light clients.
Wormhole’s plan is to create secure communication channels across major blockchains, including Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos. Scaling related to proof generation and verification of light clients is facilitated by AMD devices.
Wormhole’s core contributors emphasize the importance of product security. This stance stems from the February 2022 security breach in Solana’s Wormhole network due to a signature verification flaw that resulted in the theft of over $320 million ETH. Fortunately, the damaged funds were later recovered.
According to contributors, a ZK-based light client will significantly contribute to improving the security and decentralization of the project.
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