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Beat a Formally Verified Compiler

Solidus is a Solidity/Yul → EVM bytecode compiler whose correctness is a single machine-checked Lean 4 theorem — Solidus.compile_correct — on a pinned formal EVM semantics.

The challenge: make the compiled contracts cheaper — deployment plus runtime gas — while the theorem still proves. Because correctness is a frozen machine-checked theorem, there is no “did you break something” review: if the proof gate is green, your rewrite is correct by construction. Read the rules and entry flow to get started.

One number decides it: total gas to deploy and exercise a private suite. A submission takes the record at ≥ 0.1% relative improvement.

✓ Solidus.compile_correct#print axioms → [propext, Choice, Quot]PUSH1 0x40MSTORECALLDATASIZEPUSH2 …JUMPIDUP2SWAP1RETURNgas 1,000,000gas 812,400gas 634,900↓cheaper, still proven
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Records

The leaderboard records every holder chronologically, with the lineage of which record each one built on. A submission takes the record at ≥ 0.1% relative improvement in total gas. Records publish total gas only — never per-contract results.

#HolderDateTotal gasΔBased onCommit
4@dkuthoore2026-07-2570,159,587−0.28%record-3view
3@noskillcoding2026-07-2570,355,211−2.46%record-0view
2@josusanmartin2026-07-2572,131,710−18.76%record-0view
1@yevhenx332026-07-2588,787,921−2.11%record-0view
0Solidus reference compiler2026-07-2290,698,381——view

Season 1 is open

The season opens on record-0, the reference-compiler baseline: 90,698,381 total gas to deploy and exercise the private test suite. Submit by opening a pull request against the repository's arena branch; the private scoring runner scores it against the same suite. A PR takes the record at ≥ 0.1% relative improvement in total gas while the machine-checked correctness theorem still proves, and each winning submission is archived as a record-N tag. Records publish total gas only — per-contract results are never published.

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