Hassan Maishera
Sui, the recently launched Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform created by the core research team behind Facebook’s Libra and Diem projects, announced on Tuesday, November 7th, that it has partnered with Space and Time (SxT), the verifiable compute layer that will provide builders on Sui seamless access to off-chain data.
In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, the team said the partnership sees SxT being named the preferred data warehouse for the Sui ecosystem, providing a full stack of zero-knowledge-proof-based (ZK) tools to developers building on Sui.
The Sui team explained that the partnership with Space and Time ensures that its developers have the ZK tools that they need to build robust, data-driven dapps and games that join verifiable on- and off-chain data.
While commenting on this latest development, Evan Cheng, Co-Founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, said,
“Partnering with Space and Time to enable the development of ZK-powered games on Sui is a significant step in our mission to bring the benefits of Web3 to address a broader range of mainstream use cases. In particular, SxT provides the verifiable compute layer that the Sui ecosystem needs to onboard the next generation of Web3 game developers.”
Space and Time is Web3’s verifiable compute layer, delivering ZK-proven SQL to smart contracts and enabling developers to build robust, verifiable, data-driven smart contracts and Web3 games.
The team explained that Proof of SQL, SxT’s novel ZK-proof, also guarantees that queries are accurate and tamperproof, providing a compute layer for smart contracts that allows them to run scalable computations in a trustless and verifiable way.
At the moment, Space and Time provides developers access to relational ZK-indexed Sui data preloaded in the data warehouse and included with any SxT compute plan.
SxT’s recently launched Pay-per-compute pricing allows developers to pay only for the queries that they run. SxT is the preferred data warehouse for the Sui ecosystem and was also recently announced as the preferred data warehouse for the Chainlink ecosystem.
Thanks to Space and Time, developers can run analytics to generate deeper insights into what their community is doing in-game and on-chain to understand what in-game events led to an on-chain purchase.
Scott Dykstra, Co-Founder and CTO of Space and Time, commented that,
“Sui is a next-generation blockchain that solves so many of the key challenges faced by Web3 game developers today. Gaming is one of the most exciting applications for blockchain technology, and the Sui ecosystem is an industry leader. We are thrilled to partner with Mysten Labs to enable a new wave of ZK-powered Web3 games and dapps built on Space and Time and Sui.”
Proof of SQL, Space and Time’s novel ZK-proof, cryptographically guarantees that indexed data, offchain data and SQL query results are verifiable and tamperproof. Thus, ensuring that developers can connect their gaming smart contracts to offchain ZK-proven gaming data and SQL computing.
Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the bottom up to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone.
Mysten Labs is a team of industry-leading experts on distributed systems, programming languages, and cryptography, whose founders were senior executives and lead architects of pioneering blockchain projects.
Meanwhile, Space and Time is the first AI-powered decentralized data warehouse that joins tamperproof onchain and offchain data to deliver enterprise use cases to smart contracts. Space and Time has developed a novel cryptography called Proof of SQL that allows developers to connect analytics directly to smart contracts.
