ZK Industry News: October 9th to 15th, 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 9th to 15th, 2025.
Aligned has entered the final stage of the whitelist process for early access to ZK Arcade
ZK Arcade, the platform we built for our community to test and experience our tech, is launching very soon, and we're working with many of our partners to distribute more exclusive early-access WL spots.
ZK Arcade Ticket NFT: Partner Raffles MEGATHREAD
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) October 15, 2025
ZK Arcade is launching (very‼️) soon and we're working with many of our partners to distribute more exclusive early access WL spots.
Find out how to enter below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/9N1wzKSSO9
Ethereum's upcoming Fusaka upgrade is live on the Sepolia testnet, introducing 12 EIPs for better scalability, performance, and user experience
Mainnet upgrade is expected on December 3, 2025. Headliner EIP PeerDAS (Data Availability Sampling) (EIP-7594) reduces L2 transaction costs and boosts scalability.
Sepolia testnet has upgraded to Fusaka! 🎉
— terence (@terencechain) October 14, 2025
BPO1 is scheduled in a week pic.twitter.com/XO4EW0F2IJ
Brevis unveiled Pico Prism, their zkVM for real-time Ethereum proving
It can prove 99.6% of Ethereum L1 blocks in under 12 seconds, with an average of 6.9 seconds on consumer GPUs. The goal is 99%+ real-time proving under 10 seconds with lower hardware requirements.
Announcing Pico Prism, the state-of-the-art zkVM for Ethereum real-time proving. 99.6% of blocks proven under 12 seconds, 6.9s average with 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.
— Brevis (@brevis_zk) October 15, 2025
This marks a major step toward scaling Ethereum by 100x and a future where you can validate the chain from a phone. pic.twitter.com/nroP8A8Q9H
The Ethereum Foundation has released the Kohaku Wallet Privacy Roadmap
The Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku project, led by Vitalik Buterin and Nicolas Consigny, aims to enhance crypto wallet privacy and security while minimizing third-party reliance. Its roadmap includes a wallet SDK and reference implementation to enable private, decentralized, and user-friendly transactions.
1/ It’s time for us to go public so you all can go private, and it’s time for us to be bold so you all can be safe.
— Nico (@ncsgy) October 9, 2025
As part of our work with the @ethereumfndn, @VitalikButerin and I are proud to be the faces of Kohaku. 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/8pH3Rm3BLd
Jovay Network, developed by Ant Digital, the company behind Alipay, announced an Ethereum Layer 2 network for real-world asset tokenization
It focuses on low-cost, secure, and flexible infrastructure, leveraging AI and data, with a ZK rollup-based architecture.
🌐Jovay joins hands🤝 with @ethereum to build the next era of Layer 2.
— Jovay Network (@JovayNetwork) October 14, 2025
This is not just a step into the Ethereum ecosystem — it’s the beginning of a broader future.✨
Let’s build the next chapter together!#Ethereum #Layer2 #Jovay #RWA #Web3 pic.twitter.com/Lg7Xe73uNF
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