Boundless Network crossed a decisive threshold with its Beta Mainnet in July 2025, proving that verifiable computation can run at true blockchain scale. The beta phase welcomed more than 2,500 independent provers and drew over 411,000 participants into an open marketplace where developers posted zero-knowledge workloads and ZK miners fulfilled them. At the heart of this design sits Proof of Verifiable Work (PoVW), an incentive and security model that pays for cryptographic proofs of real computation instead of wasting energy on arbitrary puzzles. In practice, the network converts raw compute into useful attestations that other protocols can trust, aligning security with utility rather than chance.
A signature outcome of the beta was its ability to produce proofs covering entire chains as part of The Signal initiative. By coordinating with more than twenty partner teams, Boundless generated validity proofs for systems like Ethereum and Base in parallel, validating execution correctness across multiple ecosystems at once. This was more than a demo; it was a stress test that resembled production traffic. Builders streamed computation requests, operators produced and submitted proofs, and the network surfaced (and fixed) real bottlenecks around latency, peer discovery, job routing, and on-chain settlement, all while sustaining meaningful throughput.
Momentum on the capital side matched the technical results. An oversubscribed seventy-one million dollar Kaito token sale during the same period provided resources to scale prover infrastructure, accelerate enterprise onboarding, and expand R&D. Those funds compounded the network effect created by the beta, enabling Boundless to harden its reliability targets and broaden the kinds of workloads it accepts.
The technical foundation traces to RISC Zero’s RISC-V zkVM, which lets developers build proof-generating programs in familiar languages such as Rust and Solidity without writing custom circuits. Boundless extends that work with a decentralized protocol that any chain, rollup, or application can call to outsource proof generation safely. Provers compete to deliver timely and correct outputs and are rewarded in ZK Coin (ZKC) according to complexity and throughput, creating a market where honest work is priced and misbehavior is slashed.
Improvements were continuous throughout the beta. Feedback loops from builders and operators led to lower end-to-end latency, sturdier validation, faster peer discovery, and leaner on-chain interactions. The team also exercised scaling levers such as prover sharding, parallelized verification, and adaptive incentives that respond to demand spikes, all of which are essential as user adoption rises and workloads diversify. Developer experience advanced in lockstep, with SDKs, APIs, and test harnesses making it straightforward to model jobs, ship contracts, and measure performance on a zkVM-based proving backend.
Partnerships amplified reach and composability. Collaborations with the Ethereum Foundation, Wormhole, EigenLayer, Celestia, Lido, and multiple layer-two builders strengthened interoperability and clarified onboarding for new participants. That cross-ecosystem posture matters because proofs are a horizontal primitive; rollups, bridges, privacy systems, and DeFi all benefit when a neutral proving layer delivers capacity on demand.
The principal lesson of the beta is that a decentralized network of provers, governed by economic alignment and cryptographic verification, can sustain billion-scale computational checks while remaining censorship-resistant and globally distributed. With mainnet targeted for September 2025, Boundless is positioned to reshape how blockchains scale and interconnect by making verifiable computation abundant, auditable, and economically efficient.
➤ PoVW links issuance and security to productive output, replacing wasteful puzzle mining with proofs that secure real workloads.
➠ The Signal validated universal proving across multiple chains at once, confirming correctness at ecosystem scale.
✦ Tooling, incentives, and partnerships matured together, preparing the network for production-level demand.