$12,569.13 crowdfunded from 493 people
$19,980.64 received from matching pools
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Kakarot is a Cairo-based zkEVM focused on software engineering principles for Starkware's platform, enabling EVM deployment on Starknet and providing a provable execution engine for Ethereum's zk upgrades.
Kakarot is a zkEVM written in Cairo.
Cairo is a high-level general purpose provable programming language developed by Starkware.
Unlike other zkEVM (Scroll, Polygon, zkSync, Linea), Kakarot is an EVM built from a pure software engineering perspective, delegating to Cairo (and the hundreds of Starkware's cryptographers) the responsibility of the "zk", thanks to the unique usage of Cairo.
As another (opensource) EVM in the ecosystem, Kakarot enables more decentralization and aligns with the multi-client philosophy of Ethereum (see also https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/03/31/zkmulticlient.html).
The benefit of Kakarot for the community is two fold:
- enable the existing ecosystem of users and dev to deploy on Starknet
- maintain a provable EVM execution engine to be used at a later stage of the Ethereum zk migration development.
Kakarot zkEVM History
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accepted into Ethereum Infrastructure 1 year ago. 493 people contributed $12,569 to the project, and $19,981 of match funding was provided.
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