ZK Industry News: October 2nd to 8th, 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 October 2nd to 8th, 2025.
Succinct introduced Private Proving, enabling privacy at scale through its zkVM, SP1, and TEE technology
Developers can now build private apps in languages like Rust, enhancing privacy without sacrificing performance. Use cases include private payments, DEXs, and stablecoins, helping make privacy standard.
Privacy needs ZK. But ZK needs scale.
— Succinct (@SuccinctLabs) October 8, 2025
Introducing Private Proving: privacy-preserving proof generation with the power of the Succinct Prover Network. pic.twitter.com/FtIQ5KUOq4
ICE, owner of the NYSE, is investing up to $2 billion in Polymarket, valuing it at $8 billion
ICE will distribute Polymarket’s event-driven data to institutional investors and collaborate on tokenization. Polymarket, with $14B in volume, aims to bring prediction markets to mainstream finance.
We are excited to announce that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) — the parent company of @NYSE, is making a $2b strategic investment at a $9b post-money valuation.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) October 7, 2025
Together, we’re building the next evolution of markets.
A special thank you to all those who have supported us… pic.twitter.com/y7Z3koj3IU
Lido launched its Community Staking Module (CSM) V2, enabling any node operator to run validators on its protocol
The update boosts CSM’s Lido staking share from 3% to 5%, with plans to reach 10%. It introduces the Identified Community Staker framework, offering higher rewards, lower bond requirements, and priority deposits.
The Lido Community Staking Module (CSM) v2 is live on mainnet 🎉 https://t.co/tXyyUSCYqp
— Lido (@LidoFinance) October 2, 2025
Scaling permissionless staking & empowering community stakers.
↓ pic.twitter.com/WQnbFCMg4a
Lighter L2, a low-latency Layer 2 focused on perps, launched its public mainnet after 8 months in private beta
It features custom ZK circuits for verifiable matching and liquidations. The launch adds another specialized L2 to enhance high-frequency exchange performance for on-chain derivatives.
The Lighter public mainnet is live after 8 months of private beta!
— Lighter (@Lighter_xyz) October 1, 2025
Trade perpetuals with low costs and low latency on Ethereum L2 with custom ZK circuits for verifiable matching and liquidations. Experience onchain trading at the performance grade of high frequency finance. pic.twitter.com/v1VwADVAA8
Bonus: check out this thread by Luca Donno of L2BEAT where he goes over their review of Lighter's contracts and design
we just finished reviewing the project, so here's a short thread on @Lighter_xyz 🧵 https://t.co/NmlA8jGMVi pic.twitter.com/9yHwt4sLqm
— donnoh.eth 💗 (@donnoh_eth) October 8, 2025
ZisK is now quantum-resistant
By removing elliptic curve dependencies and using a secure challenge derivation, ZK proofs are more secure for the quantum era.
ZisK is quantum-resistant! 🛡️
— ziskvm (@ziskvm) October 6, 2025
We removed the elliptic curve dependency with a new secure challenge derivation, making ZK proofs safer for the quantum era.
Read how we did it: https://t.co/5gZjalScnI
Thank you @EllipticHector for putting this together. 🙏#ZK #QuantumResistant… pic.twitter.com/a9PM86X3Hd
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