diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 247e5e2..f0441c8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# go-circom-prover [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover)
+# go-circom-prover-verifier [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover-verifier?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover-verifier) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover-verifier)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/iden3/go-circom-prover-verifier)
 
-Experimental Go implementation of the [Groth16 protocol](https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/260.pdf) zkSNARK prover compatible with [circom](https://github.com/iden3/circom).
+Experimental Go implementation of the [Groth16 protocol](https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/260.pdf) zkSNARK prover & verifier compatible with [circom](https://github.com/iden3/circom).
 
 
 Using [bn256](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tree/master/crypto/bn256/cloudflare) (used by [go-ethereum](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum)) for the Pairing curve operations.
diff --git a/prover_test.go b/prover_test.go
index 136052c..702c8ef 100644
--- a/prover_test.go
+++ b/prover_test.go
@@ -36,7 +36,16 @@ func TestSmallCircuitGenerateProf(t *testing.T) {
 	err = ioutil.WriteFile("testdata/small/public.json", publicStr, 0644)
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 
-	// to verify the proof:
+	// verify the proof
+	vkJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/small/verification_key.json")
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+	vk, err := ParseVk(vkJson)
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+
+	v := Verify(vk, proof, pubSignals)
+	assert.True(t, v)
+
+	// to verify the proof with snarkjs:
 	// snarkjs verify --vk testdata/small/verification_key.json -p testdata/small/proof.json --pub testdata/small/public.json
 }
 
@@ -64,6 +73,31 @@ func TestBigCircuitGenerateProf(t *testing.T) {
 	err = ioutil.WriteFile("testdata/big/public.json", publicStr, 0644)
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 
-	// to verify the proof:
+	// verify the proof
+	vkJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/verification_key.json")
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+	vk, err := ParseVk(vkJson)
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+
+	v := Verify(vk, proof, pubSignals)
+	assert.True(t, v)
+
+	// to verify the proof with snarkjs:
 	// snarkjs verify --vk testdata/big/verification_key.json -p testdata/big/proof.json --pub testdata/big/public.json
 }
+
+func BenchmarkGenerateProof(b *testing.B) {
+	provingKeyJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/proving_key.json")
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	pk, err := ParsePk(provingKeyJson)
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+
+	witnessJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/witness.json")
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	w, err := ParseWitness(witnessJson)
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		GenerateProof(pk, w)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/verifier_test.go b/verifier_test.go
index cd80a75..fe06dc6 100644
--- a/verifier_test.go
+++ b/verifier_test.go
@@ -26,3 +26,23 @@ func TestVerify1(t *testing.T) {
 	v := Verify(vk, proof, public)
 	assert.True(t, v)
 }
+
+func BenchmarkVerify(b *testing.B) {
+	proofJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/proof.json")
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	vkJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/verification_key.json")
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	publicJson, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/big/public.json")
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+
+	public, err := ParsePublicSignals(publicJson)
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	proof, err := ParseProof(proofJson)
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+	vk, err := ParseVk(vkJson)
+	require.Nil(b, err)
+
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		Verify(vk, proof, public)
+	}
+}