.@boundless_xyz is a poor project that hasn't received a single penny in funding? To cut to the chase, the answer is no. However, no matter how much you search for a Founding Round for Boundless, you won't find it, right? The reason lies with its parent company, @RiscZero. In other words, Boundless is not a project that started from scratch. Boundless can be seen as one of the projects that realizes the ZKP technology developed by RISC Zero, inheriting the $52M funding round that RISC Zero raised. To summarize, RISC Zero is the company that created the ZKP-based zkVM, and Boundless can be described as the protocol and network that actually utilizes the zkVM. While many may get upset when comparing this, it can be likened to the relationship between @interchain_io, which develops the Interchain-Stack, and @cosmoshub, which implements that technology. So, what technologies has Boundless realized based on zkEM? 1. Universal ZK Protocol: It feels like a kind of ZKP SDK that allows anyone to easily leverage the benefits of ZKP technology. 2. Prover Marketplace: ZKP is a monster that consumes computational power. Therefore, it gathers Provers responsible for ZKP proofs to create a market environment similar to cloud services, making it accessible to everyone. 3. Execution Decoupling: Simply put, it's a technology that separates Execution & Consensus. The parts that cause overload are executed off-chain through zkVM, and proof that the computation has been performed is submitted on-chain. In summary, Boundless can be seen as a Decentralized Protocol that utilizes RISC Zero's universal RISC-V zkVM to efficiently handle complex computations off-chain with Zero-Knowledge Proofs, verifies them through a Decentralized Prover Network, and ultimately innovatively enhances the Scalability and Interoperability of all blockchains.