ZK Industry News: February 17th to 23rd, 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 February 17th to 23rd, 2025.
Justin Drake and Federico Carrone discussed Ethereum's Native Rollup Roadmap on The Rollup Podcast
The episode, hosted by Robbie and Andy, covers Based & Native Rollups, implementation challenges, and their implications for Ethereum's future.
SPECIAL: Justin Drake & Federico Carrone on Ethereum’s Native Rollup Roadmap
— The Rollup (@therollupco) February 17, 2025
Native rollups are becoming widely accepted.
For today's episode, @Robbie_rollup and @ayyyeandy sat down with @drakefjustin and @fede_intern to discuss:
> Native Rollups vs. Based Rollups
> ETH Value… pic.twitter.com/bBFFYlzGuW
LambdaClass and Aligned shared benchmarks for zkVMs
More zkVMs will be added to the repository. For now, it includes Succinct's SP1, RISC Zero, and Brevis' Pico.
Note: Aligned will be giving grants to developers who want to help with this; join our telegram group to learn more.
We’re automating CPU and GPU benchmarking to run it every monday, and publish it here on X, with the latest versions of every RISC-V zkVM.
— Fede’s intern 🥊 (@fede_intern) February 22, 2025
We will have many dozen benchmarks to the repository. We don't have any horse in the race and we want to see who is the fastest in… pic.twitter.com/PDuMSg0ZeB
The recording for the first Beam Chain Call, dedicated to the social layer, is now live
The Beam Chain is a proposed redesign of the Ethereum consensus layer.
This call features introductions from new teams and Ethereum Foundation coordinators.
beam call #1—progress at the social layerhttps://t.co/JmgzzjXzmo
— Justin.eth Drake (@drakefjustin) February 18, 2025
→ intros from 8 new beam teams
→ comments from the 6 mainnet CL teams
→ intros from 2 new EF coordinators
Outstanding diversity across 14 CL teams:
→ all continents covered (except Antartica)
→ new… pic.twitter.com/cITSIRHBUB
Herodotus introduced Atlantic, a managed ZK Prover service
It allows developers to easily integrate with StarkWare’s SHARP.
Atlantic removes the need to run your own proving infrastructure by handling proof generation and verification for Cairo (0 and 1) programs.
Introducing Atlantic: The Gateway to SHARP 🌊
— Herodotus 🛰 (@HerodotusDev) February 21, 2025
We're thrilled to announce Atlantic, a managed prover service that makes StarkWare’s SHARP accessible to every Cairo developer. Simple, reliable proving infrastructure for all your Cairo programs. pic.twitter.com/C3pJE0tww6
zkVMs are now live on Sindri
With zkVM-as-an-API, Sindri lets you deploy your favourite zkVM in minutes. It provides serverless execution, SDK/CLI access, and built-in CI/CD.
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— Sindri (@SindriLabs) February 19, 2025
👩💻 zkVMs are now live on Sindri.
Just as Replicate transformed AI deployment, we're introducing zkVM-as-an-API. Clean APIs, deploy your favorite zkVM in minutes.
Get started here: https://t.co/HJESH6Gkko pic.twitter.com/1fjflAY9cl
Introducing Neo, a Lattice-based folding scheme for CCS over small fields and pay-per-bit commitments
It draws inspiration from prior works including HyperNova and LatticeFold, but introduces several new techniques.
Work presented by Srinath Setty and Wilson Nguyen.
Introducing Neo—not the One from the Matrix, but a new folding-based proof system, with:
— Srinath Setty (@srinathtv) February 20, 2025
✅ Efficient recursion (like Nova)
✅ Small fields: M61/Goldilocks (like STARKs)
✅ Pay-per-bit commitment costs (like Binius)
✅ Plausibly post-quantum secure
🔗 https://t.co/cm4hmX3Bdf 🧵
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