Proof Marketization, Lagrange's Core Innovation
Zero-knowledge proofs have previously been seen more as a technical tool, while Lagrange pulls it into the logic of the "market." It views Proof as a "service commodity" that can be purchased by demand-side parties and generated by nodes. For example, a DeFi protocol may need to verify the status of cross-chain assets, or an AI project may want its inference results to be trusted on-chain; they can both initiate a "proof task." Nodes stake LA tokens to gain execution rights, and upon completion, they produce Proof and collect fees.
The disruption of this model lies in the fact that Proof itself begins to possess the characteristics of a financial asset—scarcity (limited computational power), priceability (more complex tasks cost more), and composability (can be invoked by other protocols). This essentially opens up a brand new "Proof-Fi market." As application scenarios increase, the supply and demand relationship of Proof will naturally drive the value loop of the $LA token, deeply binding the token to real economic activities. Perhaps this is where Lagrange's greatest imagination lies.