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# Arithmic Gen 2.0 zkVM Soma: The future of zkEVMs

Soma, the foundation of the Arithmic Network, is a Gen 2.0 VM built for RISC-V CPUs that computes proofs for most operations using lookups. In this section, we elaborate upon the system design of Soma and our planned updates for the future.