ZK Industry News: April 10th to 16th, 2025

ZK Industry News: April 10th to 16th, 2025

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We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK.

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.

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.

RISC Zero announced R0VM 2.0

This release lowers proving costs and allows any rollup to become a ZK rollup.

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.

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Aligned's Proof Aggregation Service: now live on the Ethereum Holesky Testnet

Aligned's Proof Aggregation Service: now live on the Ethereum Holesky Testnet

Verifying zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum is expensive.  With Aggregation Mode, Aligned introduces a scalable solution: compressing multiple proofs into one using recursion, drastically reducing verification costs while maintaining Ethereum-level security. This is our second major product, following the Proof Verification Layer, and is designed to give developers flexible, cost-efficient infrastructure

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