Base is partnering with Succinct to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Base Azul.
SP1 will prove $7.4 billion in deposits as @base joins a growing list of major L2s adding validity proofs to their roadmap with Succinct.
Succinct and @Offchain are bringing ZK settlement to Arbitrum, with mainnet blocks proven in SP1.
This partnership unlocks:
↳ Withdrawals to Ethereum in hours instead of days
↳ Protocol-level privacy for sensitive data
↳ A production path to ZK across every Arbitrum chain
ZK Settlement is coming to Arbitrum
- This paves the way for private Arbitrum chains
- Allows for Faster @ethereum withdrawals (from days to hours)
Thanks to @SuccinctLabs and @Offchain, Arbitrum chains will be able to implement this new technology soon
Three weeks ago we launched snark.fast to push the Flock prover to its limits. Agents pushed throughput 3.5x, to 1.8M BLAKE3 compressions/sec on an Mac M3 Max.
Today we're expanding the competition to x86 Linux, the hardware most of Ethereum actually runs on.
NEW Challenge Alert!
Post-quantum Ethereum needs faster cryptography in order to scale.
We launched SNARK.fast with @ethereumfndn, @SuccinctLabs and @EspressoSys to find out how much faster it could get.
On Mac hosts, Yukon’s open research made it 3x faster. Now
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Zerocheck is the biggest cost in SP1's GPU prover: ~67% of a shard. Its hot core is one kernel, evaluating AIR constraints.
Every zkVM interprets that kernel. We compiled it, with a real compiler.
2.34× faster, stage 191.5 → 135.3 ms.
fractalyze.io/blog/constrain…
Proud that Flock is part of this milestone for Ethereum's future.
Until recently, proving standard hash functions was too slow for Ethereum blocks, so cryptographers instead built bespoke SNARK-friendly hashes. Flock — developed by @ronrothblum, @benediktbuenz, and
Goodbye, Poseidon!
An epic 8-year, 8-figure rabbit hole in post-quantum cryptography reaches its dream conclusion. The Ethereum Foundation is abandoning Poseidon for L1, pivoting to SHA or BLAKE. This milestone unlocks ultimate security for lean Ethereum and foreshadows a golden