ZK Industry News: February 24th to March 6th, 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 24th to March 6th, 2025.
Starknet v0.13.4 is now live on Starknet Testnet
This version includes Cairo Native, a compiler that converts Cairo's intermediate representation, "Sierra" code, to machine code via MLIR and LLVM. This work is a collaboration between StarkWare and LambdaClass, and it will be on mainnet very soon.
Starknet v0.13.4 is now live on Starknet Testnet!
— Starknet 🐺🐱 (@Starknet) February 27, 2025
This new version introduces major optimizations, including:
- Cairo-Native for faster smart contract execution (and lower fees over time)
- L2 gas for more accurate transaction fees
- Stateful compression to reduce storage costs… pic.twitter.com/iqbVxSohxq
Taiko shared educational content about Native Rollups
The article, written by Jünger, describes the advantages of native rollups over traditional rollups, as well as the details of the EXECUTION precompile.
New Research: Revisit Native Rollups
— Taiko.eth 🥁 (@taikoxyz) March 3, 2025
Native rollups are essentially a return of sharding, but this time it's different. They're programmable execution shards that leverage the L1’s execution environment, creating infinite scalability while inheriting Ethereum's security.
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OpenZeppelin releases their Cairo Library Cairo Library v1.0.0 for secure smart contract development on Starknet
This library is now fully audited and production ready.
After 3 years of work, the OpenZeppelin Cairo Library v1.0.0 release is here, now fully audited and production ready!
— OpenZeppelin (@OpenZeppelin) February 25, 2025
Building on @Starknet has never been better 🛠️ pic.twitter.com/HNT4DbalsQ
'Towards a White-Box Secure Fiat-Shamir Transformation' – A new approach to preserve the security of various systems
This paper proposes a new Fiat–Shamir transformation that aims to defend against a broad family of attacks.
Delighted to share my new paper with Eylon Yogev presenting a new Fiat-Shamir (FS) transformation that aims to be secure against recent white-box attacks: https://t.co/yoa6z1lnqw
— Gal Arnon (@GalArnon42) February 25, 2025
The FS transformation is used to convert public-coin interactive protocols to non-interactive ones.
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