Ernst & Young (EY) has introduced its thirdgeneration zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) blockchain technology to the Ethereumpublic blockchain.
According to the accountancy giant, the enhanced ZKPenables private transactions on public blockchains to be less expensive andmore scalable by combining several private transfers together into a singletransaction.
The newly enhanced ZKP blockchain technology, whichalso reduces the size of an on-chain Merkle tree, combines up to 20transactions to be conducted at once and reduces the cost per transaction tonearly $0.05, representing an improvement that is 400 times better compared tothe previous prototype that was announced in October 2018.
Apart from deploying on the public Ethereum network,the ZKP can also be deployed on private blockchains that are built on the samenetwork. Paul Brody, EY global blockchain leader, said: “This technology isperhaps the most important EY blockchain milestone in making public blockchainsscalable for the enterprise. In the prior iteration released in April 2019,public blockchains were already getting competitive with private networks. Withthis iteration, we cut the cost per transaction by more than 90% again, makingprivate transactions more accessible for mainstream business application.”
Recently, Block.One also announced its updated version of the EOS.io 2.0 software that includes a purpose-built WebAssembly (WASM) engine on which the EOS smart contracts run. WASM is an instruction format designed for deployment on the web and servers. The updated version also introduces WebAuthn support, which is a web authentication standard based around public key cryptography.
