ZK Industry News: April 24th to 30th, 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 24th to 30th, 2025.

Miden announced their $25 million seed fundraise and shared a technical overview of how they're building the Edge Blockchain

Miden will support public and private transactions, ensure safety, and avoid new languages; preserving self-custody and censorship resistance for trustless global value transfer.

Lita proposed the Valida ISA extension to replace EVM

This aims to speed up transaction execution, reduce proof costs, and simplify verification.

Kakarot delivered Ethereum's first alternative ZK stack, aiming for real-time STARK proofs on L1 by end-2025

They've implemented the Ethereum State Transition Function in Cairo, enabling a novel approach to generating proofs of Ethereum L1 blocks.

LayerZero and Succinct introduced vApps: Verifiable Applications at Internet Scale

It's a Rust-based framework that enables apps with internet-grade performance. With zkVM: 832× fewer cycles than EVM, 95.7% less proving cycles, 30× GPU throughput, 346MB→1.5MB proof compression.

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