In the field of zero-knowledge proofs, the optimization of software algorithms has come a long way, but bottlenecks still exist.
@Succinct has not stayed at the software level, but has directly introduced hardware acceleration into SP1 zkVM. The FPGA acceleration solution developed in collaboration with AntChain has improved SP1's performance by over 20 times.
What does this mean? In the past, generating a complex proof could take several minutes, but now it may only take a few seconds.
For financial applications, cross-chain settlement, and real-time AI model verification, speed is everything. If proofs cannot be generated quickly, the user experience will suffer greatly, and applications will find it difficult to be truly implemented.
SP1 combines software flexibility and hardware efficiency, lowering the deployment threshold for developers and making "high-performance proofs" a reality.
More importantly, this optimization is not closed but rather allows more nodes to join through an open network, continuously improving overall network performance.
Technical details will ultimately map to the economic model: the higher the performance, the greater the demand for proofs, the stronger the activity of the Prover Network, and the frequency of use of $PROVE will also increase accordingly.
This is how Succinct binds underlying technology to token value.
