ZK Industry News: June 26th to July 2nd, 2025
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Here's what happened from June 26th to July 2nd, 2025.
Sovra showcased its Digital Trust Stack for governments and institutions
Sovra enables seamless, secure identity verification, privacy, and sovereignty—powered by Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service, Wallet-as-a-Service, ZK meta proving, and interoperability tools.
SOVRA: THE DIGITAL TRUST STACK
— sovra.io (@sovraio) June 27, 2025
We’re entering the decade of digital trust. The world is digitizing everything, but trust hasn’t caught up. We can move money instantly, but verifying a person or credential across borders still involves friction, fraud, or surveillance. With AI… pic.twitter.com/FRqckCzvrW
Sovra Chain Beta Testnet is live
It’s a Validium-based Ethereum rollup, optimized for privacy, scalability, and verifiability, anchored in real-world institutions and co-developed with LambdaClass. Key features include privacy by default, composability, and institutional trust. Sovra powers 8 million users across Latin America.
Sovra Chain Beta Testnet is live.
— sovra.io (@sovraio) July 2, 2025
Our first public sandbox is now open. Co-developed with @class_lambda, it’s the infrastructure backbone for Sovra’s mission: anchoring digital identity and institutional trust at scale.
What we’re building, why it matters:
1) Sovra Chain is a… pic.twitter.com/8yPJ9dwLrJ
Robinhood is now onchain with Arbitrum
Robinhood is launching tokenized stocks on Arbitrum One, offering over 200 US stocks and ETF tokens to EU users through its app, with blockchain backing.
Robinhood is now onchain with Arbitrum!
— Arbitrum (@arbitrum) June 30, 2025
Arbitrum will serve as @RobinhoodApp's rails to merge DeFi and TradFi in what is a 0 -> 1 moment for the entire industry.
All while onboarding millions of net-new users into crypto.
Arbitrum Everywhere. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/lHPUEI4E54
Succinct launched Stage 2.5 of the its Prover Network
This update implements a competitive auction, Sybil-resistant staking, and a high-throughput settlement layer, preparing the network for mainnet launch.
BREAKING: The Provers are Coming Online.
— Succinct (@SuccinctLabs) June 26, 2025
Stage 2.5 is here. pic.twitter.com/PxrkyEfl1j
Brevis announced Pico-GPU 1.0, a GPU-accelerated version of Pico zkVM
This version boosts performance by 10x–20x, setting a new benchmark for zkVMs on both CPU and GPU. It is now live on Ethproofs, actively proving full Ethereum block executions.
🖥️+🚀 Pico-GPU 1.0 is live!
— Brevis (@brevis_zk) June 27, 2025
🚄20× faster proofs than Pico CPU, 25 % faster than the closest contender on a single 4090 and already crunching full Ethereum blocks on @eth_proofs. Real-time ETH block proving coming soon!
Dive into the details below 👇https://t.co/RMWZmeWPaD
Fenbushi Capital posted 'Benchmarking zkVMs: Current State and Prospects'
The article benchmarks eight zkVMs (SP1, RISC Zero, OpenVM, Pico, ZKM, Jolt, Nexus, and Novanet) across four tasks. It introduces a standardized test-bed to assess performance, highlighting which zkVMs are best for specific Ethereum use-cases.
Fenbushi Capital recently released a comprehensive blog post on benchmarking eight different zkVMs. (https://t.co/CduryHWcoy)
— ZkCloud (@thezkcloud) June 23, 2025
Here is a summary, including key results and take-aways.
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