SBSomnath Banerjeeinzilkworm.hashnode.dev·Sep 29 · 31 min readIntroducing MFBD - A minimally perfect hash based flat witness format for zkEVMsThis article describes the motivations, the current format and the rationale behind the choices, and introduces the new MFBD flat bundle format. The article centres zilkworm as the zkEVM, but the idea00
SBSomnath Banerjeeinzilkworm.hashnode.dev·Jun 30 · 19 min readRe-thinking Zilkworm's State and Witness managementSom, 30 June 2026 Abstract Zilkworm is a stateless block validator for Ethereum and is optimized for, and integrated to run inside a RISC-V zkVM. Such zkEVM "guests" run as baremetal binaries with no 00
SBSomnath Banerjeeinzilkworm.hashnode.dev·Mar 31 · 7 min readOn correctly verifying ExecutionWitness in ZilkwormSom, 31 March 2026 This note examines the sufficiency of post-state root verification as the sole validation mechanism for the execution witness in Zilkworm, a stateless ZK block prover for Ethereum. 00
