Use Cases & Demos

Bonsai Pay

Bridging Web2 and Web3

Developed using RISC Zero’s zkVM and Bonsai proving service, the Bonsai Pay demo allows users to send or withdraw ETH and tokens on Ethereum using a Google account. It showcases how RISC Zero can seamlessly integrate on-chain applications with OAuth2.0, a standard used by major identity providers like Google, to facilitate widespread adoption of a web3 application.

Use Cases

ZK Coprocessor

Learn about the RISC Zero ZK Coprocessor

Developers limited by gas costs and the EVM can use RISC Zero’s ZK Coprocessor to scale their applications. The ZK Coprocessor connects Ethereum smart contracts to RISC Zero’s zkVM and Bonsai, moving gas-intensive computations off-chain and generating a zero-knowledge proof of its execution to bring on-chain, which can be verified for a fraction of the original gas cost.

ZK Fraud Proofs for Optimistic Rollups

Learn about how RISC Zero is enabling fraud proofs with Optimism

RISC Zero can bolster the security of optimistic rollups by upgrading fault proofs with cryptographic ZK proofs, called fraud proofs. ZK fraud proofs are easy to develop, modular, and upgradable thanks to their zkVM foundations and non-interactive nature.

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zkKYC

Allows users to obtain a verified ZK proof of having a validated OpenID Connect Json Web Token (JWT) issued by a KYC provider, which allows them to obtain ERC-721 non-fungible tokens (NFTs), while maintaining user privacy.

DAO Governance

The Bonsai Governor demo reduces gas costs of fully-verifiable on-chain voting by processing ballots in the zkVM.

zk Light Client

Showcases how RISC Zero can be used to generate a ZK proof of the light client verification, which dramatically reduces the compute and amount of data needed to verify.

zkML

RISC Zero also enables users to develop machine learning applications, such as with Rust SmartCore library machine learning models.

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