PANews reported on May 20th that according to The Block, zero-knowledge proof startup Succinct has released a new generation of zkVM called "SP1 Hypercube", claiming to generate zero-knowledge proofs for Ethereum blocks in 12 seconds. Test data shows that the system achieved 93% real-time proof for 10,000 Ethereum mainnet blocks on a cluster of 200 NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs, with an average time of 10.3 seconds.
This technological breakthrough has triple significance for Ethereum's expansion roadmap: supporting ZK validators and execution client expansion of Layer1 throughput, enhancing native Rollup security, and achieving shared sequencing and synchronous composability. Succinct has open-sourced its validator and Ethereum prover code, with hardware costs expected to be controlled within $100,000 after optimization. The company also announced the launch of ecosystem token PROVE on the same day, with its core development team Succinct Labs having completed a $55 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm last year.
