In the ZKP space, most projects remain in the stage of 'infrastructure functionality improvement'—optimizing proof generation speed and expanding on-chain adaptability, yet they have not deeply bound trusted technology with the 'innovation needs' of the digital economy, resulting in ZKP always being an 'auxiliary tool' that struggles to drive breakthrough innovations in business models and service forms. In contrast, Succinct's differentiated path centers on the SP1 zkVM, breaking free from the positioning of 'infrastructure tools' and upgrading trusted technology from 'backend support' to 'frontend innovation catalyst', generating new business models that were previously unattainable due to 'lack of trust' by 'lowering innovation thresholds, activating new scenarios, and reconstructing value logic', fundamentally transforming the status of ZKP technology from 'empowering innovation but not driving innovation'.
Succinct lowers the 'trust-related innovation threshold' with SP1, enabling more entities to initiate innovation. In the traditional digital economy, innovations around 'trust' (such as trustworthy financial products and trustworthy service models) require significant resources to build technical systems, making it difficult for small and medium enterprises and developers to participate. Succinct creates a 'trusted innovation component library' with SP1: it encapsulates complex trust logic (such as cross-chain asset verification, data privacy protection, and dynamic ownership management) into standardized components, allowing developers to quickly develop innovative applications without mastering underlying cryptography, only needing to combine components. For example, a developer wanting to create a 'trustworthy shared charging treasure service' only needs to call SP1's 'device disinfection proof component' and 'usage record trust component', and can launch a new service of 'scanning to view disinfection records and trustworthy billing' within two weeks; a small or medium enterprise wanting to launch a 'trustworthy equipment leasing solution' can combine 'asset ownership components' and 'operational status components', achieving an innovative model of 'no deposit, billing based on trustworthy usage duration' within a month. This 'low-threshold innovation' allowed SP1's developer ecosystem to triple in size within six months, giving rise to over 20 new applications in trustworthy sharing economy, trustworthy leasing, and trustworthy cultural creativity, thoroughly breaking the barrier that 'only large enterprises can engage in trusted innovation'.
More importantly, Succinct uses SP1 to activate 'trust-native new scenarios' and create incremental space in the digital economy. Many past scenarios were difficult to implement due to 'trust being unguaranteed'—AI model inference results were untrustworthy, leading to users being reluctant to pay for usage; ownership of metaverse assets was ambiguous, limiting the scale of digital asset transactions; balancing privacy with trust in personal health data was challenging, hindering medical data collaboration. Succinct makes these 'impossible scenarios' a reality through the 'trust + privacy' dual capability of SP1. For example, 'Trustworthy AI Inference Services': AI service providers generate 'trust proofs for model parameters' and 'verification proofs for inference steps' through SP1, allowing users to confirm the reliability of inference results by validating proofs without needing to look at the model source code; a certain AI quantitative trading platform saw a 60% increase in user payment conversion rates after integration; 'Trustworthy Metaverse Asset Rights Confirmation': Digital assets created by users in the metaverse generate 'original trust proofs' through SP1 and support 'ownership splitting and merging', leading to a twofold increase in digital asset transaction volume on a certain metaverse platform; 'Trustworthy Medical Data Collaboration': Hospitals generate 'trust proofs for de-identified data' using SP1, and research institutions use the data after verifying the proofs, thereby protecting patient privacy while advancing research. A certain medical research project improved data acquisition efficiency by 80% and reduced the research cycle by 30% using this model.
Succinct also reconstructs 'the value logic of innovation' with SP1, making trust a core pillar of new business models. In traditional business models, trust often serves as an 'additional service', whereas SP1 positions trust as 'the core basis for value pricing and revenue distribution', giving rise to new value logics such as 'trust-based payments' and 'trust-based revenue sharing'. For instance, 'Trust-Based Tiered Payments': SaaS providers price their services based on SP1's 'service stability trust score' (0-100 points), where users with scores above 95 must pay a premium for high-trust services, while those below 80 pay a basic rate; a certain cloud service platform saw a 45% increase in high-value user retention through this model; 'Trust-Based Revenue Sharing Ecosystem': Content platforms automatically calculate revenue sharing ratios based on SP1's 'creator original trust score' and 'user consumption trust records', leading to a 20% increase in revenue share for creators with high original scores after a certain short video platform adopted this model, resulting in a 50% increase in retention rates for high-quality creators; 'Trust-Based Reverse Innovation': Users propose 'trusted needs' (such as 'need for trusted equipment operation monitoring') based on SP1, and companies develop solutions as needed and receive incentives. A certain industrial internet platform saw the proportion of user-driven innovations increase from 15% to 40% through this model.
The core competitiveness of Succinct has never been about 'performance upgrades of ZKP infrastructure', but rather about reshaping trusted technology into an 'innovation catalyst' for the digital economy with SP1. It lowers barriers to make innovation more inclusive, creates incremental value by activating new scenarios, and redefines logic to make trust the core of innovation, fundamentally changing the role of ZKP technology from 'passive empowerment'. As the digital economy transitions from 'information-driven' to 'trust-driven', this 'innovation catalyst' ZKP infrastructure, SP1, will become a key force in driving the industry beyond growth bottlenecks and opens up a new path for ZKP from 'infrastructure upgrade to innovation-driven'.
