@Succinct is committed to making zero-knowledge proofs simple, fast, and accessible to everyone, without the need for a PhD in cryptography or large server configurations. Led by Uma Roy and John Guibas, its core tools are a globally decentralized network of provers and the SP1 zkVM, which together address the current pain points of ZK proofs being expensive, slow, and centralized.
The prover network is similar to a market: developers or applications (for rollup chains, AI, etc.) act as requesters needing proofs, while provers with computational power provide services. The results can be verified on Ethereum for trust, allowing for off-chain re-coordination to speed things up; through a "proof competition" mechanism, all participants are incentivized, preventing a few parties from dominating and ensuring healthy competition and fair pricing.
The $PROVE token (total supply of 1 billion) has diverse functions: requesters use it to pay provers, provers must lock tokens to participate, and holders can vote for governance, delegate tokens, and share profits. Currently, the network is in the 2.5 phase of its testnet scheduled for August 2025, actively onboarding more hardware teams and community provers, and the token has already been listed on Binance and Phemex.
The SP1 zkVM serves as a general-purpose zero-knowledge virtual machine, supporting programs compiled from Rust, C++, etc., to RISC-V, allowing developers to create using standard Rust without designing custom circuits; complex ZK programs can be completed in days (previously requiring months), and it is both general and efficient. Its operational process is: program written in Rust → compiled to RISC-V → off-chain proof generation → on-chain verification, open-source and audited by top security firms, based on verified cryptography.
Its applications are extensive, including scaling blockchains (ZK rollup chains that do not require maintaining a large proof system), secure bridging, AI model verification (without leaking data), privacy tools, off-chain computation verification, and more. Currently, major projects like Polygon and Celestia have adopted it, with over 25,000 users on the testnet.
The advantages of #SuccinctLabsPROVE include adaptability to various computations, developer-friendly, fully decentralized, low cost (due to proof competitions), and fast proof speeds; challenges include still being in testnet, rapid iterations of ZK competitors, unclear effects of token supply, and high-end proofs requiring strong hardware. The next steps will focus on advancing on-chain governance and launching the mainnet comprehensively, with its "programmable truth" path likely to become a key force in the era of verifiable computation.
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