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S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic

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S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic

Leo Fan grew up in China, performing his undergrad and masters within the country. Eventually, he came to the states to get his PhD from Cornell. Prior to his current venture, his experience has been in academia, and research in computer science. But outside of tech, he's a gamer. In fact, he was pretty good at it, almost entering professional eSports…

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  1. What Was Cysic's Original Goal? at 0:00

    Leo Fan says the original goal of Cysic was to design specialized chips for zero-knowledge proof generation. Full answer

  2. Did Cysic Pause Its Custom Chip? at 9:59

    Leo Fan says Cysic paused further engineering on a custom chip for proof generation. Full answer

  3. What Is Cysic Compute-fi? at 30:06

    Leo Fan says the essence of Cysic is a compute-fi vision. Compute-fi means people contribute idle computing resources into the Cysic network. Full answer

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