ZK Industry News: December 18th to 24th, 2025
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We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK and Ethereum.
Here's what happened from December 18th to 24th, 2025.
The Ethereum Foundation shared an article on upcoming zkEVM Security Targets
The article discusses the ongoing development of zkEVMs, focusing on the transition from performance improvements to ensuring robust security for mainnet deployment. Key challenges include achieving 128-bit provable security, maintaining proof size efficiency, and addressing the risks of unproven mathematical conjectures.
New post from @asn_d6 (EF): real-time proving is here—now security takes center stage.
— Ethproofs (@eth_proofs) December 19, 2025
Why 128-bit provable security matters, how proof size constrains design, and the milestones to mainnet-grade L1 zkEVMs.👇https://t.co/GLMlkc3erP
L2BEAT has outlined the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL) to unify Ethereum's L2 ecosystem for a seamless user experience
The Ethereum Interop Layer enables seamless cross-chain transactions by letting users sign once for actions across rollups, without new trust assumptions. Built on ERC-4337, it ensures self-custody, censorship resistance, and verifiable execution, unifying Ethereum’s fragmented L2 ecosystem securely.
At DevConnect Buenos Aires, the details of EIL @ethinteroplayer - Ethereum Interoperability Layer were unveiled.
— L2BEAT 💗 (@l2beat) December 22, 2025
We’ve been deep-diving interop protocols for months and our initial assessment of EIL contracts (deployed on testnets already) is following 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/TVQ2cPatbz
The Ethereum Foundation published Hegota Upgrade EIP Proposal Timelines
The Hegota Upgrade EIP proposal outlines key steps for Ethereum's next upgrade. From Jan 8th to Feb 4th, headliner proposals will be submitted for major features. From Feb 5th to Feb 26th, these proposals will be discussed and finalized. A 30-day window follows for non-headliner EIPs.
So enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation & Block-level Access Lists are the headliners for Glamsterdam...
— nixo.eth 🦇🔊🥐 (@nixorokish) December 22, 2025
What about the upgrade after? ✨ Hegotá ✨
Idk, anon, how about you help us decide? Will it be FOCIL? Sth else?
The timeline for choosing is up!https://t.co/zxWcBvKWrL pic.twitter.com/uRBeCByZHY
The KZG polynomial commitment paper won the 2025 IACR Test-of-Time award at Asiacrypt 2010
This award reflects the incredible efforts of countless researchers and developers in the blockchain and zero knowledge ecosystems. Their dedication over the past decade in advancing polynomial commitments has been crucial. Congratulations to the authors.
KZG polynomial commitment paper has received the 2025 IACR Test-of-Time award for Asiacrypt 2010!🎉
— Aniket Kate (@aniketpkate) December 23, 2025
Greg, Ian, and I are honored and grateful to receive the award. Thanks to @IACR_News for the selection.
This award was only possible because of the efforts and interest from many… pic.twitter.com/UBiKCpIbEN
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