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Firestarter

Firestarter is a production-ready universal proving network. Generate any proof at a fraction of the cost.

Under the hood, Firestarter is a permissioned version of ZkCloud. Projects can start using Firestarter for their proving needs today, and once the ZkCloud mainnet is thoroughly tested and stable, they can transition over.

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How It Works

About Firestarter

Firestarter is a high-performance compute network optimized for ZK. It is designed to scale to thousands of prover nodes handling both CPU and GPU workloads, as well as incorporate new hardware as that becomes available. Users can generate proofs using one of the pre-deployed provers, such as Risc0, SP1, Nexus, Aztec, ZKsync, Starkware, Linea, Scroll & Polygon or by deploying their own. Firestarter also has out-of-the-box integrations to Polygon CDK and ZK Stack chains.

Under the hood, Firestarter is an end-to-end implementation of Gevulot’s ZkCloud, just running in a permissioned fashion. The full system is made up of a blazingly fast CometBFT-based chain, which handles Credits, workload allocation and monitoring, and a network of prover nodes that provide compute for generating zk proofs.

Features

Why Choose Firestarter for ZK Proofs

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New developer experience

Containers! We’ve rebuilt the Gevulot node from the ground up to support provers deployed as containers that now run in a Linux VM. This considerably streamlines prover and verifier deployment as developers don’t need to learn any new development patterns or tools.

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Best cost-to-performance ratio

Gevulot prover node hardware is designed to give the end-user the best bang for their buck without sacrificing performance. Furthermore, the user can define the exact resource requirements for their workload and only pay for what they use.

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Infrastructure that scales

Gevulot Firestarter is designed to be able to support thousands of prover nodes with minimal overhead making it ideal for large-scale parallelized workloads such as parallel RISC0 segment proving or Aztec proof tree construction.

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Blockchain-backend for credits

Payment for Firestarter compute happens with Credits. Firestarter is running a full Cosmos SDK-based chain in the background which functions as an accounting layer for the platform.

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Rent a node

Rent nodes and earn today!

Rent fully managed GPU and CPU worker nodes and start earning mainnet token rewards ($PROOF) without lifting a finger. No setup, no hassle—we will handle the hardware while you enjoy the benefits.

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    768GB

    RAM

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    min. 1 Gbit/s

    symmetric (10 Gbit/s preferred)

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    12TB

    NVMe SSD disk

Run your own node

Run a node

We encourage Firestarter participants to run their own hardware or independently sourced servers equally to renting them from Gevulot. The Nodes are eligible for mainnet token rewards for the lifetime of the Firestarter network. A notice will be given 30 prior the rewards end.




The onboarding process and amount of nodes eligible for rewards are subject to application and written confirmation from the team. 


MAINNET TOKEN DETAILS:

Initial Supply: 1,000,000,000 $PROOF (at TGE)

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Roadmap

Current roadmap status

We have delivered production-ready proving, and now we’re on our way to permissionless.

  • Graphic showing Firestarter network, a step towards ZkCloud mainnet, as live and production-ready

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    Firestarter

    LIVE

    • A production-ready compute network with ludicrously low costs, low latency and optimal proving performance
    • Firestarter is designed to scale with near-term production demand.
    • Currently onboarding 1000+ prover nodes.
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    ZkCloud Testnet

    ETA SOON

    • A dedicated network for testing consensus with geographically distributed validators.
    • E2E integration testing with wallets, exchanges, custodians, etc.
    • ZkCloud Testnet and Firestarter will run in parallel.
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    ZkCloud Mainnet

    ETA Q1 2025

    • Fully permissionless, decentralized cloud optimized for zero-knowledge proving - powered by $PROOF
    • Seamless transition for production projects from Firestarter into ZkCloud Mainnet in 2025
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Documentation

Documentation and Resources

Access our Firestarter Documentation to learn more about setting up, using, and troubleshooting the network

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