TW: blockchain
> Releasing Constantine v0.1.0 - A modular cryptography stack for blockchain and proof systems
I guess OP had to “edit” the title for conciseness…
> Releasing Constantine v0.1.0 - A modular cryptography stack for blockchain and proof systems
I guess OP had to “edit” the title for conciseness…
Cryptography and cryptocurrency aren't the same, and I know of no other use for blockchain. Maybe they were hoping to win over non-believers by deceiving them about the content of the article.
They aren't, but this is a cryptography library.
The only truly general purpose thing here is SHA256. Every protocol on its supported list starts with either "ethereum" or "evm", and to the best of my knowledge the other primitives have seen very little use besides cryptocurrency.
Similarly KZG polynomial commitments are generic, the Ethereum specific thing is the trusted setup ceremony which needs to be specialized per protocol.
The finite field backends and the elliptic curves supported are all generic as well: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/blob/master/constanti...
And BLS signatures are standards as well: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signatur...