I only knew about ZK before, but now ZK is leaping from a high-threshold cryptographic tool to a universal infrastructure for Web3 and AI.
@SuccinctLabs is driving this technological paradigm shift, building the world's first universal ZK computing network. $PROVE is its underlying incentive engine. 🧵
SP1 zkVM, a zero-knowledge virtual machine as easy to use as modern programming languages, supports mainstream languages, and developers don't need to understand circuits and cryptography to add ZK capabilities to applications.
Succinct Prover Network: Incentivizes global GPU nodes to generate ZK proofs, creating a high-performance, secure, and verifiable computing network, with $PROVE as a universal payment and settlement token.
Moreover, through technologies such as Hypercube, ZK TPS is expected to increase from the current 15–20 to 10,000+, but can still be verified on light nodes such as Raspberry Pi, maintaining extreme decentralization.
It now serves Ethereum mainnet, L2, BTC bridge, Solana ZK bridge, Web2 enterprises, AI model verification, and many other needs, far exceeding traditional single-chain ZK projects.
Currently, 35+ protocols have integrated the Succinct network, and 10+ have entered the official launch phase, covering multiple popular fields such as privacy, cross-chain, identity, and DePIN.
The 2025 White House Digital Asset Report defines ZK as a key technological path for "privacy and compliance in equal measure," and Succinct's infrastructure-type positioning is expected to benefit first.
The core team is made up of technically-oriented Builder-type founders, Uma (MIT Mathematics + CS, former Google Brain), John (Stanford Computer Science, Thiel Fellow, former NVIDIA intern), who have been deeply involved in cryptography and system design for a long time.
Succinct has brought ZK from research labs into a real developer ecosystem, and $PROVE has become the "universal fuel" of the ZK era, running through L1, L2, AI, and compliance implementation scenarios.