Z-CORP-Experiments-Artifacts

Abstract

This dataset accompanies the paper An Architectural and Empirical Study of Root-Only Zero-Knowledge Verification and contains the scripts, intermediate artifacts, and published results used to reproduce the empirical evaluation. The repository is organized around three experiment groups: On-chain verification — deployment and Groth16 proof verification on Ethereum Sepolia and zkSync Sepolia, including contract sources, Merkle-tree inputs, Groth16 proofs, and blockchain measurement CSVs and figures. Constraint-count comparison — Groth16 R1CS constraint counts and expanded PLONK gate counts for Merkle-tree depths 5–15, with measurement scripts and summary CSVs/figures. Proving-time comparison — off-chain Groth16 and PLONK proving benchmarks across depths 5–15, including proving scripts, generated witness/proof/key artifacts, and benchmark CSVs/figures. Shared setup files include Circom circuits, Merkle-tree preparation scripts, circuit inputs, and compiled circuit artifacts. Most of the generated data is produced by the provided scripts and does not need to be included separately if the reproduction pipeline is documented.