ZK Industry News: July 24th to 30th, 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 July 24th to 30th, 2025.
Ethereum, The World Computer, celebrates 10 years
Ethereum has been online for 10 years with zero downtime. This achievement made possible by millions of users, devs, and stakers worldwide. Here's to the next decade!
believe in somETHing pic.twitter.com/AYN94zcpzD
— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) July 29, 2025
Ingonyama presented ICICLE-Halo2 v2, a new fork of ezkl-halo2 with up to a 25x performance boost
Based on the popular Halo2 zk-SNARK originally by ZCash, this version brings GPU-accelerated improvements applicable to other versions like zcash-halo2, pse-halo2, and axiom-halo2.
📢 Introducing ICICLE-Halo2 v2
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) July 29, 2025
Our almost-native GPU, blazing-fast Halo2-EZKL Fork.
🏎️Technical writeup: https://t.co/4ptpmBctkU
👩💻Code: https://t.co/AmVELb0yd8
🧑🍳Chef: @0xemirsoyturk | huge thanks to @ezklxyz ! pic.twitter.com/OSgtMVTIyE
The Ethereum Community Foundation launches BlobKit, a full-feature SDK for Ethereum’s native data layer
BlobKit simplifies writing to blobs, handling encoding, commitments, and formatting with minimal code. It unlocks new Ethereum applications like ephemeral messaging, offchain votes, and compressed state channels.
The Ethereum Community Foundation is proud to launch BlobKit, a full-feature SDK that makes Ethereum’s native data layer usable.
— Ethereum Community Foundation (@ethcforg) July 29, 2025
We said we were here to burn ETH. This is how we start.
BlobKit gives developers a direct way to write to blobspace. It handles encoding,… pic.twitter.com/9tcfp9ufPl
OpenZeppelin introduces MCP Contracts
This means you can write secure, audited smart contracts directly in Cursor, Anthropic, Windsurf, or any AI assistant! Now live for Ethereum (EVM), Starknet, Stellar, and Arbitrum Stylus.
Introducing the OpenZeppelin Contracts MCP 🤖
— OpenZeppelin (@OpenZeppelin) July 28, 2025
Build secure, OpenZeppelin-standard smart contracts directly in @cursor_ai @AnthropicAI @windsurf_ai or any AI assistant.
Now available on @ethereum (all EVM), @Starknet, @StellarOrg, and @arbitrum Stylus.https://t.co/4k8Uuikjvs pic.twitter.com/L6LsrXEGaJ
A new ZK Podcast episode exploring ZKTorch & the Evolution of ZKML is now out!
In this episode, Anna Rose and Daniel Kang discuss tools like zkCNN, zkLLM, EZKL, and ZKTorch, explore applications like FaceID verification and proof of training, while addressing technical challenges in integrating ZK proofs with machine learning.
🎙️This week @AnnaRRose talks with @daniel_d_kang, professor at UIUC and founding technical advisor at VAIL for an update on ZKML, which parts of ML proofs are generated on, and his new project ZKTorch.https://t.co/J7HhWPApfo
— Zero Knowledge Podcast (@zeroknowledgefm) July 30, 2025
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