nescience/README.md

Nescience

A Zero Knowledge Toolkit aims to support circuit generation (API & DSL), multiple curves and proving systems.

To Run:

make update make test

The ambitions are as follows:

Circuit Generation

Provable Programs

• API
• DSL
• R1CS

Proving Systems

• groth16
• gm17
• PLONK
• Halo
• zk-STARKs ?

Curve Support

• BN128
• BN254
• BN256
• BLS12-381
• BLS12-377 (Zexe inner curve)
• SW6 (Zexe outer curve)
• BW6-761 (More efficient Zexe outer curve)
• JubJub ?

Gadgets

Standard Library for Circuits

• Comparators
• Binary Add/Sub
• Blake2s
• sha256
• Poseidon
• MIMC
• Sparse Merkle Tree
• Baby Jubjub
• Pederson Hash
• EdDSA

MPC

Structured Reference String (SRS) generation for Setup

• "Powers of Tau" protocol for groth16

Special Thanks

Check out these great projects which have been the inspiration and reference for Nescience.

• Circom / SnarkJS (Javascript)
• libsnark (C++)
• Gnark (Go)
• Bellman (Rust)