ZK-News - January 6th-12th, '25
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from January 6th to 12th, '25.
We publish a recap of ZK for all of 2024. 🎉
Alignoors, we are very excited to share with you this recap, which contains notable announcements, proving records, milestones from zkVMs, as well as various achievements in the research of polynomial commitment schemes, proving systems, and more.
It’s amazing to see how the zk ecosystem has evolved this year, and we’re eager to see what lies ahead.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to explore and shape the future of ZK!
2024 was a groundbreaking year for Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology, with significant advancements.
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) January 10, 2025
It's been an exciting journey. Let’s dive into a recap of the key highlights!
Here we have:
✅ Notable Announcements.
🔹 ZK in the Ethereum consensus layer.
🔹 Aligned's Mainnet… pic.twitter.com/atNx6Twkbb
Starknet announced that SN Stack is now publicly available! 🐺
The announcement features a blog post that provides all the details and highlights why this development is key, as the SN Stack is the only tech stack available that enables appchain builders to select from three distinct flavors of stack implementations.
You can choose:
✅ The battle-tested, top-performant StarkWare Sequencer flavor.
✅ The fully customizable Madara flavor.
✅ Or, if you are building an onchain game, you can try the Dojo flavor.
Ready to build your own custom chain using the SN Stack?
Build your very own Starknet; now available for everyone.
— Starknet 🐺🐱 (@Starknet) January 8, 2025
After years of battle-testing our technology, the SN stack is now ready for public use, enabling anyone to easily create their own custom chain using the most performant and cost-efficient ZK tech stack on the market.
By… pic.twitter.com/eZteSvvnSt
Irreducible launches alpha-ready Binius library and its first application. 🚀
The application is an Ethereum state proving service.
This release comes with a comprehensive documentation website, offering:
✅ An introduction to Binius.
✅ Guidance for building Binius constraint systems.
✅ Benchmarks.
✅ And more.
Read the full announcement to dive into the details.
🚀Big news! Irreducible launches alpha-ready Binius library and its first application, an Ethereum state proving service. Here’s what it means: 🧵
— Irreducible (@IrreducibleHW) January 8, 2025
Ripio made a major announcement: LaChain, its blockchain, is joining ZKsync’s Elastic Network. ⚡
Through this upgrade, LaChain is now built on the ZK Stack.
We are very excited to see the impact this could have.
Congratulations to Ripio and ZKsync.
Elastic Network++@RipioApp is leading crypto adoption in LATAM across 8 countries, 19M users, and dozens of businesses.
— ZKsync (∎, ∆) (@zksync) January 7, 2025
LaChain’s upgrade from LaChain Classic to a ZK Chain represents an increase in demand that only ZK-proofs can service for scalability, security, and UX. https://t.co/hY3Us1dzTU pic.twitter.com/FMT68BZgR6
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