Symphony is a new consensus protocol to reduce replicated execution and enable high-performance, resource-intensive workloads.
gasLimit
). This
homogeneity is what affords Ethereum the ability to perform synchronous
replicated execution across all nodes.
Ritual enables heterogeneous compute to enrich what
users can do on-chain. We enhance the EVM by introducing new operations that
enable
AI Inference,
ZK Proving & Verification,
TEE Execution, and more. Executing
these operations, unlike all EVM opcodes today, requires heterogeneous resources
that not only exceed the typical capabilities of validator nodes, but may also
take upwards of minutes or even hours to execute.
To support these heterogeneous operations, while preserving the guarantees
offered by the Ethereum blockchain, Symphony introduces three key innovations: