ZK Industry News: September 11th to 17th, 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 September 11th-17th, 2025.
The Ethereum Foundation is launching the dAI Team to make Ethereum the go-to platform for AI and the machine economy.
They'll focus on decentralizing AI, enabling trust and coordination for AI agents, and supporting innovations at the AI-blockchain intersection.
Bonus: check out our blog post where we explain why ZK and Ethereum are essential technologies in our increasingly AI-powered world
We’re starting a new AI Team at the Ethereum Foundation (the dAI Team).
— Davide Crapis (@DavideCrapis) September 15, 2025
Our mission: make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AIs and the machine economy.
The team will focus on two main areas:
- AI Economy on Ethereum = giving AI agents and robots ways… pic.twitter.com/9sWVS4dp0K
Bitcoin staking is now live on Starknet!
Bitcoiners can join Starknet’s consensus, validators can deploy BTC pools, and builders can start integrating immediately. Rewards will begin on 30/09. Supported wrappers at launch: WBTC, LBTC, tBTC, and SolvBTC.
Bitcoin staking integration completed!
— Starknet (@Starknet) September 15, 2025
The upgrade is now live, bringing Bitcoin into Starknet’s staking mechanism.
What this means:
- Bitcoiners can now participate in Starknet consensus, with a staking power weight set at 0.25 (BTC = 25 % of consensus power, STRK the…
The Fusaka Audit Contest, co-sponsored by Gnosis and Lido, started this week.
It aims to identify vulnerabilities in the Fusaka upgrade. The contest offers $2M in rewards, with top researchers being recognized.
The Fusaka Audit Contest begins today.
— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) September 15, 2025
The goal of the contest is to maximize scrutiny of the Fusaka upgrade and surface vulnerabilities before they can impact the network.
Co-sponsored by @gnosisdao and @LidoFinance, hosted on @sherlockdefi. https://t.co/1349TXybWF
Kakarot released FibRace, a game to benchmark client-side ZK proving on mobile devices.
Generate Fibonacci numbers, prove them locally with Cairo M on iOS & Android, and contribute to global cryptography research.
(1/8) Zero-knowledge proofs should be for everyone. So we're inviting everyone to prove.
— Kakarot (@KakarotZkEvm) September 11, 2025
🎉 FibRace is live! Prove to Win. 🎉
Generate numbers. Prove locally. Race globally.
📱 Available now on iOS & Android
🗓️ Play until Sept 30
🥕 Built with Cairo M by @kakarotzkevm pic.twitter.com/Y4f1RrdDYT
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