The problems of provable (formally-verifiable) program safety and determinism became crucial in the age of modern LLMs. I am developing #AluVM and @CationLang as a constructionist and ultrafinitist tool: in each type is a finite set of constructable objects; so there is type N8 made of all natural numbers (0 is not natural!) in range 1-256 included, N16, N32 and N64. There are integers of the same sort (0 included), I8, I16, I32 etc. There are no floating-point numbers, only rationals (in the Norman Wildberger @n_wildberger style), no sine/cosine - only rational trigonometry. Integers are pairs of numbers, not just “unsigned with a sign bit”, rationals are pairs of integers (i.e. quadriples of numbers). It uses dependent types (calculus of constructs), but restricts to finite types only. All functions are total, the termination analysis proves that. There is no recursion which can’t be reduced to a provable-terminating computation at compile-time. This gives a language and computational system which is formally analyzable at compile-time, by its structure.additionally to that, a binary compiled code is also formally analyzable and has a verifiable properties.

Aug 29, 2026 · 7:25 AM UTC

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This is so different for those with no previous exposure, perhaps you could give a little example. I could compute 6×7=42 within type I8; if 'Integers are pairs of numbers' then what pair represent 42? (A reference to further reading would be fine.)
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`6*7=42` will be natural, N8, not integer. To write integer you need to use integer literals, +6*+7=+42. `+I` is a syntactic sugar for pair of natural numbers `(I+1, 1)`, meaning `(I+1)-1`. Negative numbers, like -5, are encoded as `(1, 6)`; zero is `(1, 1)`. For explanations, see youtu.be/YDBLXCFrihc?is=3ID_… PS. Two N8 make an I16, not an I8. For I8 you need two N4.
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Could this language also be applied to the RGB protocol? I’m really looking forward to seeing ZK-AluVM enable a wide range of applications and an ecosystem on RGB. Also, may I ask if you’ve been following the progress of Bitlight’s RLN? I have a feeling that the Testnet4 launch is coming very soon.
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