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ZK Industry News: March 13th to 19th, 2025

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20 Mar 2025 — 1 min read

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Here's what happened from March 13th to 19th, 2025.

Ingonyama released ICICLE-Snark, offering enhanced performance for ZK applications

ICICLE-Snark outperforms other implementations in Groth16 benchmarks, pushing the boundaries of proof generation speed.

ICICLE-Snark: The Fastest Groth16 Prover in the World ⛷️

We pushed Groth16 acceleration to the extreme—ICICLE-Snark sets a new standard for proof generation speed.

Link to repo: https://t.co/WUwOaLzc4C

❄️ Benchmarks, manual, and more inside:https://t.co/7UpbGEbbJv pic.twitter.com/L72DNz0lAW
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) March 18, 2025

EigenDA and Mantle announced partnership to secure $1.3B in TVL

With this integration, EigenDA becomes the largest altDA provider in the world.

EigenDA is now the LARGEST alternative DA provider in the world (in TVL secured).

Meet the new blueprint for scaling the next decade of crypto infrastructure.

Why @Mantle_Official trusts EigenDA to verify and secure $1.3B in value 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Xkh1DxoxVz
— EigenLayer (@eigenlayer) March 19, 2025

Lita announced Keccak Acceleration Chip to accelerate block proving with Valida zkVM

They’ve optimized the Keccak permutation (Keccakf-1600), the core computational burden of Keccak hashing, resulting in improved performance.

Introducing the Keccak Acceleration Chip

Accelerating block proving with Valida zkVM. pic.twitter.com/fi64zWoPI0
— Lita (@0xLita) March 17, 2025

ZKsync adopted Fermah’s Universal Proof Market for proof generation

This integration leverages a distributed network of EigenLayer operators to provide decentralized proof generation for ZKsync's Elastic Network.

Fermah will generate proofs for @zksync

ZKsync is innovating at the bleeding edge of ZK. Their adoption of Fermah for a critical component of their stack – proof generation – makes it official:

Proof markets are here... and they're bringing moon math to the masses pic.twitter.com/hMPiDpBuCH
— Fermah (@fermah_xyz) March 17, 2025

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