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Jolt: lookups for a virtual machine

Jolt proposes proving a virtual machine with lookups rather than by arithmetising every instruction into a bespoke constraint system.

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Authors: Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler
Date: 2023
Publisher: Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler
Version: Source cited by the 2023 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0645
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Jolt proposes proving a virtual machine with lookups rather than by arithmetising every instruction into a bespoke constraint system.

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Canonical readingJolt zkVM study
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Arun, A., Setty, S., & Thaler, J. (2023). Jolt: lookups for a virtual machine. Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler. https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1217

BibTeX

@techreport{joltzkvm2023,
  title = {Jolt: lookups for a virtual machine},
  author = {Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler},
  year = {2023},
  institution = {Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1217},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/jolt-zkvm}
}

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