Why is the topic of this internship important?

Making verification techniques scale up to a large industrial, cutting edge, project is a Herculean task. In our case, one of the great hurdles is tightening the verification gap between a mechanization in F*, and the real-world Tezos implementation in OCaml. In a large and complex codebase like ours, there is inevitably a semantic distance between the abstract models we build for the verification of critical components of the Tezos Economic Protocol, such as Sapling or ZK -rollups, and the nitty-gritty of their implementation.