ZK Industry News: August 21st to 27th, 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 August 21st-27th, 2025.
LambdaClass published two blog posts on the basics and optimization of the Sumcheck protocol
The first one describes the fundamentals of multilinear polynomials, and the second explores an algorithm proposed by Bagad, Dao, Domb, and Thaler in “Speeding-up SUMCHECK Proving,” which shows how to make the Sumcheck protocol even more efficient.
• Part 1: Multilinear polynomials: survival kit
• Part 2: Optimizing Sumcheck
🚀 Part 2 is here!
— LambdaClass (@class_lambda) August 28, 2025
After covering the basics of Multilinear Polynomials, we now dive into the algorithm proposed in "Speeding-up SUMCHECK proving" by Bagad, Dao, Domb, and Thaler.
SUMCHECK plays a central role in fast proof systems, and this post shows how it can be made… pic.twitter.com/0EWWJIjpCb
Succinct has signed a one-year exclusive partnership with Tandem, Offchain Labs' venture arm, to bring zero-knowledge proving to the Arbitrum ecosystem
This collaboration enables ZK support for Arbitrum chains via Succinct’s SP1 zkVM and the Succinct Prover Network, expanding ZK accessibility and doubling its addressable market in L2s.
Furthermore, here you can find a stream about our Aligned Guests session with Daniel Lumi, Senior Product Manager at Offchain Labs, where he explained his vision about the role of ZK in Arbitrum chains and more.
ZK is coming to Arbitrum.
— Succinct (@SuccinctLabs) August 26, 2025
Succinct is teaming up with Tandem, the venture studio of @OffchainLabs, for a one-year exclusive strategic partnership to enable ZK proving of Arbitrum chains — a major vote of confidence in the Succinct Prover Network. pic.twitter.com/8LtPmRz0ki
ZKM's CTO Stephen Duan introduced Ziren's real-time proving technology
Ziren was the second zkVM on Ethproofs, showcasing high-speed proof generation. Real-time proving is live on GOAT Network (a native Bitcoin zkRollup) and will soon launch on Ethereum mainnet.
⚡ Ziren Real-Time Proving: a major milestone for ZK@ProjectZKM CTO @sd_eigen introduced technology for real-time proving.
— OpenBuild (@OpenBuildxyz) August 25, 2025
1️⃣ ZKM’s Ziren utilize s MIPS32r2; the most stable and instruction efficient general-purpose ISA for ZK
2️⃣ Ziren was the second zkVM to launch on… pic.twitter.com/z06j3f8ROk
Bonus track: Aligned shared two streams exploring the history of zero-knowledge technology and its key milestones with Diego Kingston
This material was published as part of our Aligned Guests series and covers two sessions with our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston and Boris from our Ecosystem team.
You can find the complete playlist of our Aligned and Guests series below.
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