J-group
The J-group covers the design, architecture, and implementation of a language for verifiable private protocol design, including Juvix, Alucard, and VampIR.
A verifiable protocol design language should:
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Abstract complexity properly so that complex programs can be written and reasoned about (by the programmer).
This isn't too tall an order - Rust, Haskell, etc. do a fine job at this - but e.g. Solidity fails. See this paper for a more detailed discussion.
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Allow for the expression of compact (constant-size) invariants (properties) against which the correctness of a much longer algorithm (any computable size) can be automatically checked (perhaps with a programmer-crafted proof). This verification should be composable, so that properties checked against lower-level algorithms can be used in proofs of properties of higher-level algorithms using the lower-level algorithms as components.
A whole discipline of existing research - dependently-typed programming - seems capable of fulfilling this requirement.
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Support multiple heterogeneous backends and execution environments so that applications can be written once in an integrated fashion and deployed to multiple parts in different execution models and environments.
Execution models such as WASM, ZK circuit, MPC circuit; execution environments such as Anoma VPs on multiple fractal instances, Near WASM, other chains.
Right now, we have three layers: