Yi Sun

$20M raised from Paradigm

Co-founder of Axiom. Pioneered ZK coprocessors for Ethereum, enabling smart contracts to compute trustlessly over the entire history of onchain data. Now building OpenVM — a modular, high-performance ZK virtual machine for arbitrary Rust programs. Raised $20M from Paradigm.

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Modular high-performance ZK virtual machine for arbitrary Rust programs.

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Pioneered ZK coprocessors for Ethereum enabling smart contracts to compute trustlessly over all onchain history.

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Axiom V2 goes to mainnet today for developers.

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OpenVM 1.0.0 released as a zkVM framework.

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