ZK Industry News: March 13th to 19th, 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 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 ⛷️
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) March 18, 2025
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
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).
— EigenLayer (@eigenlayer) March 19, 2025
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
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
— Lita (@0xLita) March 17, 2025
Accelerating block proving with Valida zkVM. pic.twitter.com/fi64zWoPI0
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
— Fermah (@fermah_xyz) March 17, 2025
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
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