Grant Application - Verified Pasta Curve Operations, Poseidon R1CS Constraints, and Folding-Based Recursive Proof Architecture
Independent researcher Sk Sarin Arfin (HSMA) requests $150,000 from Zcash Community Grants to complete production instantiation of a verified cryptographic proof system over Zcash's Pasta curves, including Poseidon-3 R1CS constraints, Homomorphic Pedersen commitments, and a folding-based recursive proof. Includes a 1,600-byte recursive epoch proof verified without the witness, generated in 118ms on ARM64, and a bilingual golden-oracle verification methodology reusable by Zcash developers.
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