ZK Industry News: April 10th to 16th, 2025
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Here's what happened from April 10th to 16th, 2025.
Vitalik Buterin published an article on the importance of privacy
He highlighted that ensuring privacy with open-source, universal, and secure tools is a major challenge today, noting that before ZK-SNARKs, decentralized privacy was impossible.
Why I support privacy:https://t.co/4Um4QdnTqG
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 14, 2025
StarkWare shared its research on ColliderVM, a new protocol built on top of Bitcoin
ColliderVM enables stateful computation on Bitcoin, powering a trust-minimized bridge to an L2 like Starknet.
1/ We’re excited to announce our research on ColliderVM, a new protocol built on top of Bitcoin.
— StarkWare 🐺🐱 (@StarkWareLtd) April 10, 2025
It enables stateful computation without fraud proofs.
🧵👇 https://t.co/PaDsY93QIw pic.twitter.com/7PdWQmeX7B
RISC Zero announced R0VM 2.0
This release lowers proving costs and allows any rollup to become a ZK rollup.
Introducing R0VM 2.0.
— RISC Zero (@RiscZero) April 10, 2025
The zkVM built for the real-time era. pic.twitter.com/mjxM36iqZr
Kakarot posted its insights on what happens when multiple ZK provers share the same components
Kakarot's fully independent stack provides important implementation diversity that enhances the resilience of the Ethereum ecosystem.
— Kakarot ZK-EVM (@KakarotZkEvm) April 10, 2025
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