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ZAN is joining the Succinct Prover Network as a multi-node cluster validator. ZAN is an infrastructure provider specializing in node operations and hardware, supported by AntChain OpenLabs. They recently collaborated with Succinct to develop FPGA acceleration for SP1, improving SP1 by 20x compared to traditional CPUs, demonstrating their deep technical expertise in ZK.

They will bring their extensive experience in hardware acceleration and running hundreds of GPUs in production to the network. By bidding on attestations in competitive auctions, ZAN validators will provide critical infrastructure for our customers.

In the long term, ZAN's work on FPGA acceleration will also benefit the network by reducing the cost of attestation for all users; FPGAs are potentially much cheaper than cloud GPUs or even on-premises clusters. FPGA acceleration will serve as a pipeline for integrating ZK proving ASICs, which encode specialized proving systems in silicon.

The network now comprises some of the world's most respected proving teams. We are fulfilling our original vision of creating the world's largest proving cluster. This vote of confidence from teams like ZAN will accelerate ZK globally.