ZK Industry News: July 31st to August 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 July 31st to August 6th, 2025.

The Succinct Prover Network is now live on mainnet.

This marketplace is a protocol on Ethereum that connects provers and requesters to generate proofs using the SP1 zkVM.

Justin Drake shared the Lean Roadmap, his vision for the future of Ethereum.

The Lean Roadmap expands on the original Beam chain proposal and explains how Ethereum's consensus, execution, and data layers are expected to improve over the next 10 years.

Boris sat down with Justin for a short interview on this topic at ETH CC in Cannes this year; check it out on Youtube.

Fermah became the 8th team to go live on Ethproofs.

They're the first team to implement the R0VM zkVM from Risc Zero on Ethproofs, which they did without using Bento.

To learn more about Fermah, check out our Aligned Guests stream where Boris hosted Fermah founder Vanishree Rao on Youtube.

Payy introduced the payy card.

This undoxxable, non-custodial physical payments card uses ZK to maintain privacy.

The payy card lets users spend stablecoins in normal stores while maintaining privacy, an important step towards real world crypto payments.

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