I just used the zkProof node verification feature of Succinct, and to be honest, I was a bit amazed. I used to think zero-knowledge proofs were something only understandable in papers, but I didn't expect them to really achieve simplicity + ease of use.
Simply put, you no longer have to trust whether the data returned by a centralized node has been tampered with; Succinct lets you verify that each step's state is correct, like giving on-chain information a shot of "non-falsifiable vaccine."
Of course, this isn't some lofty white paper promotion; I actually went through the API myself, wrote a demo in Rust, and it runs pretty fast. In the future world of Web3, this kind of infrastructure should be standard, right?
By the way, here's a tag:
@Succinct Friends interested in ZK are welcome to communicate together~
#Succinct
$PROVE