Takeaways from zkSummit13:

1. War of zkVMs is still heating up. More new entrants & upgrades/redesigns will shake up the performance landscape.

2. VC attendance/attention on ZK has bottomed--someone (half jokingly) told me after the summit that I was the only VC in attendance (and they are not wrong).

3. Attention and stakes are moving up the stack: the zeitgeist is that the ZK adoption is no longer bottlenecked on cost or dev overhead, but onboarding more apps.

Some more subjective notes:

- Attention on proving delay (real-time proving for Eth L1) will shift back to proving cost overhead (kappa).

- We need more product-led companies building features with ZK (like Google wallet leveraging ZK for identity)

- We are more likely to see de facto standards in ZK than de jure standards as progress is simply too fast.