Vitalik calls for accelerated phase-out of Groth16 trust settings

On January 27th, Vitalik.eth tweeted that the elimination of trust settings for Groth16 algorithm should be accelerated, arguing that the separate trust settings for each application are out of date in the 2020s, and at least universal settings should be adopted, ideally no settings are required. He stressed that this requires significant improvements in infrastructure building and standardization of the new SNARK algorithm, while citing Alin Tomescu that trust settings for Groth16 are very cumbersome and require a deep understanding of alternatives such as PLONK.