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The incentivized testnet (mainnet beta) of RISC Zero’s Boundless network went live on Base yesterday.

Boundless is not a new blockchain. Boundless is a marketplace for zero-knowledge virtual-machine (zkVM) proofs — sometimes called a proof market — that can deploy to any network and settle proofs anywhere.

Who needs it? Any chain or application that wants to process heavy computation onchain, but whose existing virtual environment is ill-suited to leverage zk technology. 

Boundless lets teams do so without making radical changes to their architecture. Just like how Chainlink…

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