Pasta curve friendly VDF Implemenation

[hgedia]

Summary

A VDF is a function whose evaluation requires running a given number of sequential steps, yet the result can be efficiently verified. They have applications in decentralised systems, such as the generation of trustworthy public randomness in a trustless environment, or resource-efficient blockchains.

VDF based on pasta curves can be implemented using o1js.

Resources

• Efficient verifiable delay functions
• Paima Navigators proposal
• Paima blog on VDFs

Ready to build?

Please read the docs on how to progress.

[YashBit]

@hgedia Currently in the process of reading documents and preparation of proposal.

Will submit proposal after milestone 1 of the AccountUpdate project.

[YashBit]

@hgedia Got in touch with the main author of the Minroot paper which has been requested to be implemented here.

Dr. Khovratovich has agreed to support us in our journey of implementing and understanding Minroot for Mina.