How Axiom works

Axiom consists of two main technical pieces:
The AxiomV0 smart contract which stores Merkle roots of Ethereum block hashes, in batches of 1024. The AxiomV0 contract will only accept and store a batch of blocks if:
A ZK SNARK verifies that the hashes of block headers form a commitment chain.
The most recent block in the chain has a hash that is either already in the AxiomV0 cache or is directly accessible within the smart contract (one of the 256 most recent blocks).
In this way AxiomV0 ensures that it only stores commitments to block hashes that are trustlessly verified.
The AxiomV0StoragePf smart contract which allows batch verification of arbitrary historic Ethereum storage proofs against the root of trust given by block hashes cached in AxiomV0.
On top of this initial release of Axiom, applications can apply verified compute primitives like basic analytics (sum, count, max, min) and cryptographic operations (signature verification, key aggregation) on the imported historic data.  All Axiom circuits are implemented in the halo2 proof system and open-sourced at https://github.com/axiom-crypto.
Warning: Our circuits and smart contracts are currently unaudited and intended only to illustrate use cases for Axiom. They should not be relied upon for production usage or value transfer.
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