In blockchain applications, 'trustworthiness' is often forcibly tied to 'high cost', 'low privacy', and 'poor experience': to achieve on-chain trust, one must bear high computing costs; to verify data authenticity, sensitive information must be exposed; to enjoy security guarantees, complex operations must be endured. This 'binding dilemma' greatly diminishes the practical value of ZK technology. The core innovation of Succinct Labs is to be the 'trust decoupler' of ZK technology — it separates 'trustworthiness' from 'high cost', 'low privacy', and 'poor experience' through technical optimizations and solution designs, achieving 'trustworthy without spending much, trustworthy without leaking secrets, trustworthy without hassle', allowing ZK technology to truly adapt to the diverse needs of real-world scenarios.
I. Decoupling 'Trustworthiness and High Cost': Enabling Small and Medium Actors to Enjoy Trust at Low Cost
In the past, 'trustworthiness' was almost synonymous with 'high cost' — generating a ZK proof required paying high Gas fees, and building verification nodes needed an investment of hundreds of thousands in hardware costs, which small projects, individual developers, and micro-enterprises could not afford. Succinct Labs' 'low-cost trustworthy solution' breaks this binding through 'computing power sharing + lightweight verification', allowing high trust to be achieved at low cost.
The core of the plan is a 'decentralized lightweight prover network': unlike traditional ZK projects that rely on high-computing servers, this network allows individuals to contribute computing power using ordinary computers or even idle smartphones, generating proofs through 'distributed computing aggregation', significantly reducing the cost of a single proof. A small Web3 educational project previously used traditional ZK solutions to generate 'student certificate proofs', costing $1.2 each, with a monthly expense of $30,000; after integrating with Succinct's prover network, the cost per proof was reduced to $0.08, with a monthly cost of only $2,000, while enjoying 24-hour computing support.
For micro-enterprises and individual users, the solution also offers 'pay-as-you-go + free quota': micro-enterprises can generate 1,000 basic proofs for free each month, with excess charged at $0.05 each; individual users (such as freelance creators) generating NFT rights proofs get the first 10 times for free, with subsequent requests charged only $0.03 each. A certain handmade leather goods creator used the free quota to generate ZK proof of rights for their works, avoiding counterfeiting issues without incurring costs, and increasing sales by 40%. Currently, this network has over 150,000 lightweight computing nodes, with the average cost of a single ZK proof reduced by 92% compared to industry standards, and the ZK usage threshold for small and medium actors has dropped by 95%.
II. Decoupling 'Trustworthiness and Low Privacy': Ensuring Data Verification Does Not Leak Sensitive Information
In many scenarios, 'verifying data trustworthiness' and 'leaking sensitive information' are a dilemma — enterprises want to prove the authenticity of supply chain data but must disclose procurement prices and customer information; users want to prove their identity's legitimacy but must submit personal data such as ID numbers and addresses. Succinct Labs' 'privacy-native trust solution', based on SP1 zkVM's 'zero-knowledge characteristics + data desensitization', achieves 'proving only results, not leaking processes', breaking the binding of trustworthiness and privacy.
A certain cross-border medical platform's application is highly representative: the platform needs to verify whether patients 'meet overseas medical treatment qualifications' (e.g., whether they have specific diseases or sufficient medical budgets) but cannot access complete medical histories and asset information of patients. After integrating Succinct's solution, patients only need to generate a ZK proof that 'meets medical treatment qualifications' — the proof only contains the conclusion of 'qualification legality' without involving specific conditions or asset amounts; the platform can confirm qualifications by verifying the proof without needing to view private data. After the solution was launched, the patient privacy complaint rate dropped to 0, and inquiries for overseas medical treatment increased by 55%.
In enterprise collaboration scenarios, privacy protection is also crucial. When a certain automobile manufacturer collaborates with parts suppliers, it needs to verify whether the supplier's 'production capacity meets standards' but does not want the supplier to know its procurement plans, and the suppliers also do not want to expose all their production capacity data. Through Succinct's 'two-way privacy proof', the manufacturer generates a ZK proof of the 'scope of procurement needs', while the supplier generates a ZK proof of 'production capacity covering needs'; both parties only verify the validity of each other's proofs without exchanging specific data, ensuring trusted collaboration while protecting business privacy, reducing the negotiation cycle from one month to one week. Currently, this solution has been implemented in 12 high-privacy demand scenarios including healthcare, supply chain, and finance, with the risk of data privacy breaches reduced to 0, and the willingness of enterprises and users to collaborate with trust increased by 80%.
III. Decoupling 'Trustworthiness and Poor Experience': Ensuring Security Does Not Increase Operational Burden
For ordinary users, 'trusted security' should not be an 'additional operation' — they should naturally enjoy security without having to remember multiple keys, wait for proof generation, or understand technical principles. Succinct Labs focuses on user experience, hiding ZK technology in the 'background', creating 'invisible trust' processes, and breaking the binding of trustworthiness and poor experience.
In Web3 onboarding scenarios, this experience optimization is particularly evident. After a certain user-friendly wallet integrated Succinct's 'ZK lightweight security solution', users did not need to create complex private keys during registration, just verifying with their mobile number, and the system automatically generated a ZK binding proof of 'mobile number and on-chain address'; during transfers, the backend generated a 'transaction legality' ZK proof in real-time, allowing users to confirm and receive funds instantly without waiting for verification, with asset security guaranteed by the proof. After the wallet was launched, the 30-day retention rate of new users increased from 22% to 60%, and the abandonment rate due to complex operations dropped by 85%.
In everyday consumption scenarios, 'invisible trustworthiness' also enhances user stickiness. A certain chain coffee shop launched the 'ZK Membership Points System': when users scan to pay, the system automatically generates a ZK proof that matches 'consumption amount and points', with points credited in real time, eliminating the need for users to manually claim them; when redeeming gifts, there is no need to show a membership card, just validate the points proof, making the entire process 'payment equals points, redemption equals verification', allowing users to avoid extra steps. After the system was launched, the member repurchase rate increased by 45%, and the points redemption rate rose from 30% to 75%.
Summary
The value of Succinct Labs as a 'trust decoupler' lies in its pursuit of not just 'achieving trustworthiness', but also making it 'useful, affordable, and secure' — it breaks the industry's default erroneous equation of 'trustworthy = high cost = low privacy = poor experience', allowing ZK technology to adapt to small and medium actors' cost budgets, high privacy scenarios' information protection needs, and ordinary users' convenient usage habits. When trust is no longer a 'burden' but a 'bonus' of 'low cost, high privacy, good experience', ZK technology truly possesses the potential to penetrate various industries and serve billions of users. This 'decoupling thinking' not only enables Succinct Labs to form differentiated competitiveness in the ZK track but also pushes the blockchain's trusted capability from the 'technical level' to the 'user-friendly level', providing a key breakthrough point for the practical transformation of the industry.
