ZK Industry News: February 3rd to 9th, 2025
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Each week, we're bringing you industry highlights so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK.
Here's what happened from February 3rd to 9th, 2025.
Mina releases a zkML Library
zkML allows AI models to function on-chain with full privacy and verification, opening new doors for decentralized applications.
With this release, the Mina team provides a tool for generating zero-knowledge proofs from AI models and settling those proofs on the Mina blockchain.
A new devnet release of Mina’s zkML library is here!
— Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶 (@MinaProtocol) February 6, 2025
Developers can now generate and validate zero knowledge proofs for AI inference directly on Mina’s blockchain.
Why this matters 🧵 (1/4)https://t.co/4mwDItc0xU
Ingonyama introduces ICICLE-Stwo
The goal of this project was to add a CUDA backend to the StarkWare Stwo prover, without introducing any changes to Stwo’s frontend design.
ICICLE-Stwo demonstrates 3.25x–7x performance improvement over Starkware’s heavily optimized SIMD backend.
Introducing ICICLE-STWO
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) February 6, 2025
A GPU-accelerated STWO prover that delivers up to 7x faster proofs than @StarkWareLtd's SIMD-optimized backend.
Fully open-source and a drop-in replacement, ICICLE-STWO moves proving end-to-end to the GPU for unmatched efficiency.
🔗 Full breakdown:… pic.twitter.com/1otnW4lwF8
Announcing Valida 0.8.0, by Lita
Lita unveils their first release of the year, featuring significant updates across the Valida zkVM stack. Here are the key highlights:
• Core WASM Support
• Speed Improvement with CPU Detection
• Valdia API
• Block Proving on the way
Valida 0.8.0
— Lita (@0xLita) February 5, 2025
Core WASM Support
Valida API
CPU Runtime Detection
and more (↓) pic.twitter.com/YMYxCpYkp2
ZKP2P V2 Launch Announcement
This protocol enables trust minimized and fully noncustodial buying and selling of any offchain digital asset (e.g. fiat currencies) for any onchain asset.
It functions as a set of generic escrow smart contracts, crypto primitives and supporting relayers and interfaces that enable seamless exchange between web2 and web3.
1/ Today, we’re releasing ZKP2P V2—our next iteration of a trust-minimized, instant on/offramp protocol
— ZKP2P (@zkp2p) February 3, 2025
Onramp to USDC, ETH, cbBTC and more across any chain using Venmo, CashApp, Wise, or Revolut. No fees, no extra ID checks, and in under 60 seconds—settled on @base pic.twitter.com/PzfK8aNRIQ
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