Scale up with accelerator chips
Wormhole, which develops compatibility technology (bridge messaging) between different blockchains, announced that it will implement accelerator chips from semiconductor giant AMD to boost performance.
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It uses AMD’s Alveo U55C and U250 chips to increase the computing power of Wormhole’s zero-knowledge proof.
Wormhole supports token bridging and messaging for over 30 blockchains. We are currently developing a light client implementation using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to create a secure “communication channel” between blockchains.
This ZKP consumes more computing power, so it was decided to use AMD chips. Those chips are already being used in the AI field for tasks such as machine learning.
Wormhole plans to create a secure communication channel across major blockchains including Ethereum, Near, Solana, Aptos, Sui, and Cosmos. Scaling for certificate generation and verification on light clients is facilitated through AMD devices.
In the announcement, Wormhole said, “AMD will provide enterprise-grade field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and GPU hardware, and will provide deep hardware expertise to Wormhole ZK engineers to ensure efficiency and speed.” “By providing this information, we are playing an important role in this effort.”
It is expected that details of Wormhole’s W token airdrop may be announced in the near future.
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