PANews reported on May 20 that according to The Block, zero-knowledge proof startup Succinct released a new generation of zkVM "SP1 Hypercube", claiming that it can complete the generation of zero-knowledge proofs for Ethereum blocks within 12 seconds. Test data showed that the system achieved 93% real-time proofs for 10,000 Ethereum mainnet blocks on a cluster of 200 NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs, taking an average of 10.3 seconds.

This technological breakthrough has three implications for the Ethereum expansion roadmap: supporting ZK validators and executing clients to expand Layer1 throughput, enhancing native Rollup security, and achieving shared sorting and synchronous composability. Succinct has open-sourced the validator and Ethereum prover code, and it is expected that the hardware cost can be controlled within $100,000 after optimization. The company announced on the same day that it will launch the ecological token PROVE. Its core development team Succinct Labs completed a $55 million Series A financing led by Paradigm last year.