The Day I Sent My First Proof Request
I still remember the mix of curiosity and skepticism the first time I sent a proof request through Succinct’s dev console. I’d read the whitepaper, but I wanted to feel the latency, see the receipt, and examine the on-chain footprint. I submitted a small job: some off-chain data aggregation and a correctness check. Minutes later a succinct proof arrived and the transaction posted a tiny verification on-chain. It felt like a light switch: heavy compute off-chain, tiny trustable proof on-chain. For a developer who’s wrestled with on-chain gas limits, that was liberating. It changed my mental model — instead of “can we fit this on chain?”, it became “what should we compute off-chain and prove efficiently?” The developer docs were practical and the APIs were straightforward. That hands-on moment is why I began thinking of $PROVE as an infrastructure tool, not just a research paper. I started weaving succinct proofs into prototypes and haven’t stopped testing corner cases since.
