✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨ Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from May 1st to 7th — presented by @BJ_Dyakov. ✅ Pectra upgrade is live on @ethereum! ✅ @VitalikButerin published an article explaining plans to simplify the L1. ✅ @Google adopted zero-knowledge technology to enable age verification through Google Wallet. ✅ @RiscZero team introduced Steel 2.0, a ZK-coprocessor for the EVM. ✅ @ProjectZKM announced zkMIPS 1.0: The first production-ready version of its MIPS-based zkVM. 1/
Pectra upgrade is live on @ethereum! It provides enhanced smart wallet UX, 2x L2 scaling blobs, and improved validator UX. 2/
0/ the biggest ethereum upgrade since the merge is coming. and this time, you’ll feel it. it’s called pectra and here’s why it matters a guest thread by @binji_x ↓
.@VitalikButerin published an article explaining plans to simplify the L1. The post outlines a way forward to simplify the Ethereum protocol, accepting short-term costs for long-term benefits. 3/
Simplifying the L1
.@Google adopted zero-knowledge technology to enable age verification through Google Wallet. Its approach combines the @ligero_inc ZK system and the GKR protocol. This work was pioneered by a paper published in late 2024, Anonymous Credentials from ECDSA. 4/
Google introduced a way to prove your age with your google wallet using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) (). This work was pioneered by Matteo Frigo and abhi shelat ( and uses a clever combination of Ligero (designed by founders of @ligero_inc) and GKR. Here are some highlights:
.@RiscZero has introduced Steel 2.0, a ZK-coprocessor for the EVM. It offloads execution offchain, where you can aggregate data, run complex logic, and compute over multiple blocks and historical state, returning a small proof onchain. EVM contracts verify it with constant gas, regardless of computation size. 5/
Introducing Steel 2.0 The EVM no longer decides how big your app can be. Go beyond the block.
.@ProjectZKM announced zkMIPS 1.0: The first production-ready version of its MIPS-based zkVM. This upgrade boosts zkMIPS 0.3.0 performance with new architecture, optimized proving, memory checks, chip decomposition, and precompiles for a simple, stable, scalable real-time verifiable computation foundation. 6/
zkMIPS 1.0 is here - our most significant leap toward real-time proving, following months of careful engineering and system-level breakthroughs:
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