Recently, industry technical discussions have once again focused on the long-standing challenge of trust-minimized Bitcoin bridges.
BitVM2 provides a new implementation approach, while in the broader field of cross-chain verification, @Succinct is also promoting trust-minimized solutions through its general-purpose zkVM (SP1) and decentralized Prover Network.
SP1 supports compiling any computational logic into zero-knowledge proofs, enabling trustless inter-chain verification; the Prover Network operates in a distributed node form, allowing developers to call verification services as needed without the need to build complex hardware.
This architecture is not only applicable to Bitcoin bridging but can also be extended to various areas such as Layer2 state verification, cross-chain messaging, and off-chain computation proofs.
It is reported that Succinct has received investments from well-known institutions such as Paradigm and is integrating into ecosystems like Ethereum.
Its token $PROVE is used to incentivize validators and govern the network, and as the number of nodes increases, this infrastructure is expected to become an important computational power support for multi-chain interoperability.
