// Package cubic describes how to create and verify proofs on the Neo // blockchain. The example shows how to check that the prover knows the solution // of the cubic equation: y = x^3 + x + 5. The example is constructed for // BLS12-381 curve points using Groth-16 proving system. The example includes // everything that developer needs to start using ZKP on the Neo platform with // Go SDK: // 1. The described cubic circuit implementation. // 2. The off-chain proof generation with the help of gnark-crypto library. // 3. The Go verification contract generation and deployment with the help of // NeoGo library. // 4. The on-chain proof verification for various sets of input data (implemented // as end-to-end test). // 5. A set of unit-tests aimed to check the circuit validity. package cubic import ( "github.com/consensys/gnark-crypto/ecc" "github.com/consensys/gnark/backend/groth16" "github.com/consensys/gnark/frontend" "github.com/consensys/gnark/frontend/cs/r1cs" ) // CubicCircuit defines a simple circuit x**3 + x + 5 == y // that checks that the prover knows the solution for the provided expression. // The circuit must declare its public and secret inputs as frontend.Variable. // At compile time, frontend.Compile(...) recursively parses the struct fields // that contains frontend.Variable to build the frontend.constraintSystem. // By default, a frontend.Variable has the gnark:",secret" visibility. type CubicCircuit struct { // Struct tags on a variable is optional. // Default uses variable name and secret visibility. X frontend.Variable `gnark:"x,secret"` // Secret input. Y frontend.Variable `gnark:"y,public"` // Public input. } // A gnark circuit must implement the frontend.Circuit interface // (https://docs.gnark.consensys.net/HowTo/write/circuit_structure). var _ = frontend.Circuit(&CubicCircuit{}) // Define declares the circuit constraints // x**3 + x + 5 == y. func (circuit *CubicCircuit) Define(api frontend.API) error { x3 := api.Mul(circuit.X, circuit.X, circuit.X) // Can be used for the circuit debugging. api.Println("X^3", x3) api.AssertIsEqual(circuit.Y, api.Add(x3, circuit.X, 5)) return nil } // main demonstrates how to build the proof and verify it with the help of gnark // library. Error handling omitted intentionally to simplify the example. func main() { var ( circuit CubicCircuit assignment = CubicCircuit{X: 3, Y: 35} ) // Compile our circuit into a R1CS (a constraint system). ccs, _ := frontend.Compile(ecc.BLS12_381.ScalarField(), r1cs.NewBuilder, &circuit) // Once the circuit is compiled, you can run the three algorithms of a zk-SNARK back end: // 1. One time setup (groth16 zkSNARK). pk, vk, _ := groth16.Setup(ccs) // Intermediate step: witness definition. witness, _ := frontend.NewWitness(&assignment, ecc.BLS12_381.ScalarField()) publicWitness, _ := witness.Public() // 2. Proof creation (groth16). proof, _ := groth16.Prove(ccs, pk, witness) // 3. Proof verification (groth16) via gnark-crypto library. _ = groth16.Verify(proof, vk, publicWitness) // 4. If building ZKP systems for Neo, you'll need a verification contract // deployed to the Neo chain to be able to verify generated proofs. This // contract can be generated automatically using NeoGo zkpbinding package: // err := zkpbinding.GenerateVerifier(zkpbinding.Config{ // VerifyingKey: vk, // Output: f, // Verifier Go contract writer // CfgOutput: fCfg, // Verifier Go contract configuration YAML file // GomodOutput: fMod, // go.mod file for the Verifier contract // GosumOutput: fSum, // go.sum file for the Verifier contract // }) // // Create arguments to invoke `verifyProof` mathod of Verifier contract: // verifyProofArgs, err := zkpbinding.GetVerifyProofArgs(proof, publicWitness) // // For end-to-end usage example, please, see the TestCubicCircuit_EndToEnd test. }