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Jolt is an open-source, RISC-V zkVM that is fast, secure, and easy to use -- a new, state-of-the-art approach to SNARK design that’s based on three years of research & development at a16zcrypto, which we open sourced for anyone to use or develop further. But Jolt is really a story that’s decades, and even millennia, in the making.