Vitallic Butterin has called upon researchers to attend the Pocidon Cryptographic Analysis program as the atherium investigates the potential switch of the Posidon hash function to increase its ZK-proof capabilities.
In Recent posts on XAtherium (Eth) co-founder Vitallic Butterin has encouraged researchers to attend the Posidon Cryptographic Analysis program. Vitallic Posidon hash ishch considering switching to the function to improve it with ZK-provers (tools to verify the transaction privately). To help make this decision, Etreum wants more information about Poseidon’s safety, and they have extended the deadline to apply for the funding program to March 15.
In November 2022, a proposal called Atherium Reform Offer (EIP) 5988 To implement the Poseidon Hash function, adding a pre-pronouncement to the ethereum virtual machine, suggesting to add a pre-affection to the atherium virtual machine with the objective of adding a pre-pronouncement to the ethereum virtual machine. .
Since the introduction of the proposal, it seems that there is no official implementation or major update for EIP 5988, but it seems that the atherium is still seriously considering the implementation of Posidon.
Posidon hash ceremonyIn 2019, well-established ishch, such as SHA-256 and Keccak, is relatively new than actions, which have been around for decades and have undergone extensive tests. However, SHA-256 or Keccakt is not specifically designed for zero-knowledge proof. In contrast, Posidon is specifically designed for use in zero-knowledge evidences. Although it has not been tested extensively in the form of SHA -256 and Keccak, Posidon is already in production within layer -2 systems on atherium networks and other blockchain projects.
The discovery of the Etreum of the Poseidon hash function is a small part of its broad efforts to increase the performance of the network. Most especially, long -awaited pectra upgrade will be officially launched on 8 April, aimed at increasing the scalability of atherium, improving account abstraction, promoting layer -2 efficiency and increasing the verification award. This upgrade follows the recent Dankun Hard Fork -which was rolled out in March 2024, which significantly reduces the transaction fee for the layer -2 network.
