ZK Industry News: May 15th to 21st, 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 May 15th to 21st, 2025.

Succinct announced SP1 Hypercube, the latest version of their zkVM, which is capable of proving Ethereum blocks in real time

SP1 Hypercube is built entirely on multilinear polynomials and represents a different approach from previous versions of SP1, which were built on a STARK-based architecture using Plonky3.

Succinct has also launched "Prove with us," the second phase of its Prover Network testnet

Now, users can become provers, earn rewards, and contribute to the network's growth.

RISC Zero unveils plans for an open-source $120K real-time proving cluster. This will ensure real time proving remains accessible enough for many participants to prove the L1 and ensure Ethereum remains decentralized

They predict that this cluster, running the R0VM zkVM, will be able to prove Ethereum blocks in ~9.5 seconds.

Space and Time indexed blockchain data will be integrated with Microsoft's data analytics platform, Fabric

With this integration, Microsoft devs will be able to access reliable, queryable blockchain data for practical business applications.

Starknet is now a Stage 1 ZK Rollup

This was achieved by introducing a Security Council, upgrade delays and censorship resistance.

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