Remember how zk proofs were this wild, arcane jungle? Succinct just handed us a machete — the SP1 zkVM, a RISC-V-based VM that lets developers write proofs in Rust or LLVM languages without building custom circuits in some niche DSL.

A couple key breakthroughs:

Precompiles via system calls boost hashing and curve ops (secp256k1, Keccak-256, Ed25519) by up to 10×, while staying open-source and extensible ...

Real-world benchmarks show SP1 can slash proving costs on GPU by a factor of 10 (or ~0.1¢/tx), making it 10× cheaper than other zkVMs

This means less time wrestling with ZK circuits and more time deploying rollups, bridges, or fraud-proof agents — and doing it cheaper.

What if proof generation on testnets becomes so cheap that light-clients become default infra for DeFi UIs?

Suddenly, developers don't choose between UX and security — they get both.

#SuccinctLabs $PROVE @Succinct —

$20+What would you build if proofing was this cheap?