[a16z crypto Releases Open-Source zkVM Lattice Jolt with Quantum-Resistant Capabilities] BlockBeats News, September 9: a16z crypto announced the release of the open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) Lattice Jolt. The new version transitions its underlying cryptography from elliptic curve to lattice cryptography, enabling quantum resistance, while improving the prover and verifier speeds by 2 to 3 times. The proof size is currently under 100KB, which a16z crypto claims is the smallest proof in post-quantum zkVMs. Lattice Jolt employs a novel polynomial commitment scheme, Akita, based on the Module-SIS lattice hardness assumption, with a target security level of 128 bits. Akita was spearheaded by the LayerZero research and engineering team in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Southern California, and the a16z crypto team. In terms of performance, Lattice Jolt can prove over 2 million RISC-V cycles per second using a CPU on the same device. With GPU acceleration via Apple Metal, it can exceed 10 million cycles per second on a MacBook. The prover's memory usage has also been reduced from approximately 300 bytes per cycle to 200 bytes per cycle, enabling the proof of millions of computation cycles on mobile devices. The project will also incorporate zero-knowledge functionalities in subsequent papers.