Excellent question. Advances in ZK technology will gradually transform the previously almost irreconcilable contradiction (performance versus decentralization) into a positive cycle: higher throughput leads to stronger decentralization. 1. Lowering Hardware Barriers Previously: Proving an Ethereum block required 50-160 high-end GPUs, costing $300,000-$500,000, meaning only companies could afford it. Afterward: 2-8 RTX 5090s are sufficient (cost < $15,000), allowing individuals and studios to participate in full-fledged proof nodes. Evolutionary Direction: Proofers shift from an "oligopoly" to "tens of thousands of miners," naturally increasing decentralization. 2. Changes in Economic Incentives Previously: Only centralized sorters earned money. Afterward: Whoever provides proof gets paid (Succinct Prove, Brevis ProverNet's proof-for-profit market). Evolutionary Direction: A true "proof-as-mining" market emerges; the more participants, the more censorship-resistant the network. 3. L1 itself will also benefit. Once the cost of proving a very large block becomes acceptable, the community can confidently increase the L1 gas limit without worrying about "verifiers not keeping up." Result: L1 throughput increases 3-5 times, while running a full node still only requires a regular consumer-grade computer; decentralization increases rather than decreases. 4. Privacy becomes a new moat for decentralization. ZK technology enables contracts to read the entire network's history and cross-chain data without trust. In the future, privacy-focused DeFi, zkML, and RWA will no longer rely on centralized oracles → reducing the attack surface and becoming more decentralized. In short, ZK is no longer a compromise of "sacrificing decentralization for scalability," but rather a lever to "push decentralization to new heights with verifiable computation."