CoinDesk: StarkWare Unveils New 'Stwo' Cryptographic Prover That's 'Blazingly Fast'

[Karl Semich]

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DENVER, COLORADO – StarkWare, the developer firm behind layer-2 network
Starknet, announced on Thursday at ETHDenver that it is building a new
cryptographic prover, called Stwo.

A prover is a key component for layer-2s, since they generate proofs that
are then posted to the base layer blockchain – a crucial process in linking
the networks and sharing the security. With a faster prover, processing
transactions costs should be lower, which in effect then will also lower
fees for users and speed up transactions, according to the StarkWare team.

In August, StarkWare *open-sourced its existing prover*
<https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/08/22/starkware-to-open-source-magic-wand-of-its-zero-knowledge-cryptography-next-week/>,
known as Stone. The new prover, "Stwo," gets its name from a portmanteau of
Stone and Two, and anyone will be able to run it as well as examine its
codebase, according to a press release seen by CoinDesk.
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Starknet appchains that currently use Stone will eventually reap the
benefits of the Stwo prover, according to StarkWare.

The news comes just a week after StarkWare and Polygon *announced Circle
STARKS*
<https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/02/21/polygon-starkware-tout-new-circle-starks-as-breakthrough-for-zero-knowledge-proofs/>,
which are a new type of cryptographic proofs designed to make transactions
faster and cheaper for zero-knowledge rollups.

Oren Katz, COO of StarkWare, said in a press release that Circle STARKS
will be implemented in Stwo, helping to "supercharge Ethereum by more
efficiently generating proofs."

“It’s especially exciting that just a week after the new Circle STARK
protocol was announced as a theoretical breakthrough, this protocol is
already springing to life with the development of this blazingly fast
prover,” Katz said.

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*Read more: **Polygon, StarkWare Tout New 'Circle STARKs' as Breakthrough
for Zero-Knowledge Proofs*
<https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/02/21/polygon-starkware-tout-new-circle-starks-as-breakthrough-for-zero-knowledge-proofs/>
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