《Bringing ZK Down from the 'Expert Altar': @Succinct How to Reconstruct Web3 Trust Infrastructure with $PROVE 》

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) were originally the 'savior of privacy' in Web3, but due to 'difficult deployment and high costs', they became a toy for a few experts—until @Succinct broke the deadlock with the SP1 protocol and a decentralized prover network. It's like giving ZK a 'democratization switch': developers no longer need to tackle hefty cryptography texts; by writing a bit of ordinary code in Rust, SP1 can automatically convert it into zero-knowledge proofs; ordinary users or institutions equipped with GPUs, FPGAs, or even servers can join the prover network to earn rewards, and #Succinct is making the technology of 'proving results without leaking secrets' truly feasible.

The PROVE token is the 'gear' behind all of this. Developers use it to pay proof fees, and provers stake it to ensure network security—if they fail to submit proofs on time or commit fraud, the staked PROVE will be confiscated. Conversely, those who work steadily can share in auction revenues, and even users who delegate their stakes can benefit. Even more intriguingly is the governance power: token holders can vote to change inflation rules, adjust staking requirements, and even have a say in how fees are distributed, truly returning 'rule power' to the community.

Data has already showcased the strength: the mainnet will launch Ethereum in August 2025, immediately securing partnerships with 35 protocols, safeguarding over $4 billion in on-chain assets; 500 global prover nodes are running, generating a proof in 300 milliseconds, capable of handling 100,000 requests per second. After collaborating with ZAN to utilize FPGA acceleration, the speed has surged by 15 times. Now, 200 million ZKPs have been generated, with 70% used in rollups and cross-chain bridges; #Succinct is no longer an 'experimental project', but a truly capable infrastructure.

@Succinct 's ambition lies even more in 'lowering the barrier': SP1 supports multi-chain verification, and with each API update, 300 dApps come to integrate; conducting 'Prover Bootcamp' provides $500,000 in rewards to node operators, allowing even home users to learn to participate. With this momentum, as verifiable AI reasoning and cross-chain bridge scenarios unfold, $PROVE is likely to become the 'credit fuel' of Web3. After all, it is now #Succinct that can boldly claim to have simplified complex ZK.