ZK Visualizer
I built this while learning zero-knowledge proofs
Details
- External ID
- 46807517
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ZK Visualizer
- Website domain
- zkvisualizer.com
- Launched
- Jan. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I was learning ZK proofs and found that visualizing things really helped me understand them. Noticed there aren't many interactive visualizations out there, so I built one.Here's the first version: zkvisualizer.comIt walks through the full pipeline step by step (Problem → Circuit → R1CS → Polynomials → Witness → Proof → Verification) with real Groth16 proofs generated in your browser using snarkjs.You can toggle between what the prover knows vs what the verifier sees, and there's a tamper detection demo where you can watch verification fail.This is still very early on, but I would be very happy to receive any feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- scientific computing and deep tech tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- zero-knowledge proofs visualizer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an educational client-side web application visualizing math steps (R1CS, polynomial interpolation) using standard interactive frontend charts and SVG/Canvas.
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