{
  "type": "failure-mode",
  "name": "Adopting a transcript that cannot serve your scheme",
  "slug": "adopting-a-transcript-that-cannot-serve-your-scheme",
  "section": {
    "id": "ceremony",
    "number": "04",
    "title": "Running or reusing a trusted setup",
    "url": "https://zkpick.com/ceremony/"
  },
  "url": "https://zkpick.com/ceremony/failure-modes/adopting-a-transcript-that-cannot-serve-your-scheme/",
  "markdown": "https://zkpick.com/md/ceremony/failure-modes/adopting-a-transcript-that-cannot-serve-your-scheme.md",
  "detail": "A large, reputable ceremony is adopted on the strength of its participant count, and only later does the team discover the transcript cannot back their proof system at all — most commonly, a Groth16 project reaching for a pure powers-of-tau/KZG SRS that carries no alpha- or beta-shifted powers.",
  "mitigation": "Check scheme compatibility before curve and before size. Run your toolchain's phase-2 initialisation against the candidate artefact as the very first step, not after the ceremony has been planned.",
  "relatedOptions": [],
  "updated": "2026-09-12",
  "version": "1.3",
  "canonical": "https://zkpick.com/ceremony/failure-modes/adopting-a-transcript-that-cannot-serve-your-scheme/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "authors": [
    "MarketComp"
  ]
}