ZK Industry News: September 25th to October 1st, 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 25th to October 1st, 2025.
Ethereum's Holesky testnet has been successfully upgraded to Fusaka
This upgrade went live on Holesky on October 1st, with Sepolia scheduled for October 14th and Hoodi for October 28th. Client releases for both consensus and execution layers are available. Fusaka introduces 13 EIPs, including PeerDAS, enhancing scaling and L2 transaction efficiency.
Mainnet activation is planned for December 3rd.
Fusaka is coming to Ethereum's testnets 🌃
— timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) September 26, 2025
- Holesky: Oct 1st
- Sepolia: Oct 14
- Hoodi: Oct 28
Read the full announcement for client release info and to learn about the update's features, including PeerDAS, L1 scaling & UX improvements 👇 pic.twitter.com/m7Rs3HswYs
EigenLayer launched EigenAI and EigenCompute on mainnet alpha
EigenAI offers a verifiable LLM inference service with an OpenAI-compatible API, ensuring untampered prompts. EigenCompute provides verifiable offchain execution, starting with Trusted Execution Environments and expanding to cryptoeconomic guarantees and zero-knowledge proofs.
AI’s trust problem ends today.
— EigenCloud (@eigenlayer) September 30, 2025
We're thrilled to launch two new services, EigenCompute and EigenAI on EigenCloud. A new foundation for building truly verifiable apps and agents.
One of the biggest upgrades to AI since the launch of GPTs.
More 🧵 ↓ pic.twitter.com/2QBaR6d8uk
Cloudflare unveils NET Dollar, a USD-backed stablecoin designed for the agentic web
Aimed at supporting microtransactions and agent-to-agent payments, it seeks to modernize the internet's financial systems. This follows the previous launch of the x402 Foundation with Coinbase to standardize AI-driven payments.
Introducing NET Dollar: https://t.co/D5QrMDx0qG.
— Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota) September 25, 2025
Swift is integrating a blockchain-based shared ledger into its cross-border payment network
It aims for instant, real-time transactions across 200+ countries. Developed with Consensys, it will enhance liquidity management, compliance via smart contracts, and support tokenized assets and multi-currency transactions.
Have you heard the news? 📰
— Swift (@swiftcommunity) September 29, 2025
In the Sibos opening plenary, our CEO, Javier Perez-Tasso, revealed plans to add a blockchain-based shared ledger to our infrastructure stack.
Together with over 30 leading financial institutions, this initiative aims to make real-time, 24/7… pic.twitter.com/ckVvMmIvH0
ZisK team introduced ZisK v0.12.0
This release offers a 20% performance boost over previous version, a distributed proving system with gRPC-based coordination, and 128-bit quantum-resistant security. It handles 95% of Ethereum blocks in real-time with 32 GPUs.
Introducing ZisK v0.12.0
— ziskvm (@ziskvm) October 1, 2025
We are proud to release our most advanced version yet.
Key achievements:
> 20% performance improvement over previous version
> Distributed proving system with gRPC-based Coordinator.
> 128-bit quantum-resistant security maintained across all… pic.twitter.com/yKC4ITudJ6
Lita released Valida zkVM 1.0.0
Key features include parallel proving for multi-segment proofs, faster iterations, improved correctness checks, LLDB debugger support, and optimized codegen.
We’re releasing Valida zkVM 1.0.0 — our first major milestone.
— Lita (@0xLita) September 30, 2025
This version brings parallel proving, debugger support, smarter codegen, and stronger soundness checks.
Thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/uFOYQDrvvp
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