About succinct

The Succinct Network proposes a global, distributed proving cluster that enhances the world’s proving capacity through a competitive auction mechanism known as proof contests. This network serves as a unified platform where users can submit proof requests while anyone globally can contribute proving capacity. Provers can easily join the network by running node software, ensuring high reliability for user requests. The innovative proof contest mechanism operates as an all-pay auction with collateral, facilitating effective price discovery while promoting decentralization in the prover set. This approach addresses challenges such as proof spamming, contention, and griefing, utilizing an application-specific blockchain to coordinate provers and requests.
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are one of the most critical technologies to blockchain scaling, interoperability and privacy. But, historically building ZKP systems was extremely complicated--requiring large teams with specialized cryptography expertise and taking years to go to production. SP1 provides a performant, general-purpose zkVM that enables any developer to use ZKPs by writing normal code (in Rust), and get cheap and fast proofs. SP1 will enable ZKPs to become mainstream, introducing a new era of verifiability for all of blockchain infrastructure and beyond.
Uma Roy, co-founder and CEO of Succinct Labs, spilled the beans on Stage 2 of their testnet, dubbed "Prove with Us." This exciting phase invites everyone to jump in and become a prover in Succinct’s Prover Network—no fancy GPU required! You’ll get to generate zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) using SP1, helping power the future of blockchain scalability and privacy. It’s a permissionless party where anyone can spin up a node, flex their proving skills, and earn points by bidding on proof contests. Stage 2 is all about hands-on fun, turning learners into active contributors in a decentralized, trustless computing adventure!

Succinct roadmap

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Updates

Here are some important updates and researchs on succinct

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Kshitij Kulkarni

vApps: Verifiable Applications at Internet Scale

vApps allow you to build applications that give users web3-level security and transparency with a familiar web2 developer experience. We know that dApp developers are tired of the constraints they face today. They’re forced to use Solidity, deal with the EVM, and assume low throughput. In short, they’re forced to build in a box. vApps move away from the pattern of EVM forks and give developers the ability to write normal applications and turn them verifiable with a simple Rust SDK.
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Leland Lee

Succinct Unites 120 Cosmos Chains with Ethereum

Last week, the Interchain Labs launched IBC Eureka: the official deployment of IBC v2 along with the canonical bridge between Cosmos and Ethereum. Under the hood, IBC Eureka’s bridge to Ethereum is powered by the Succinct Prover Network and SP1, enabling affordable IBC transactions with zero-knowledge proofs.
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John Guibas

Introducing SP1-2FA: Adding a Second Layer of Security to zkVMs with TEEs

Today, we’re announcing SP1-2FA, the newest feature on the Succinct Prover Network that adds a second layer of protection to SP1 through Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). This advancement furthers our vision for building the best zkVM for developers, building on the recent performance improvements from SP1 Turbo and the ease of using the Succinct Prover Network's proving infrastructure.
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Edward Li

Introducing OP Succinct Lite: ZK Fraud Proofs on the OP Stack

Today, we’re announcing SP1-2FA, the newest feature on the Succinct Prover Network that adds a second layer of protection to SP1 through Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). This advancement furthers our vision for building the best zkVM for developers, building on the recent performance improvements from SP1 Turbo and the ease of using the Succinct Prover Network's proving infrastructure.
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Uma Roy

SP1 Turbo: the world’s fastest zkVM just got faster

SP1 Turbo (v4.0.0) is the latest upgrade to SP1 and offers significant cost and latency improvements. SP1 Turbo is a blazing fast zkVM with best-in-class performance for a variety of ZK workloads–including rollups (zkEVMs), light clients, signature verification and other blockchain computations.
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Uma Roy

Succinct ZK Residency

The Succinct ZK residency is a 1 month in-person program hosted in Succinct’s San Francisco Office from September 23rd to October 18th. Recent advances in general-purpose ZK like SP1 have finally made it possible to iterate quickly with ZK with fast performance needed for real-world use-cases.
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Kshitij Kulkarnin

Galxe Brings the Power of ZK to Millions with Succinct

Galxe Quests are beloved in the blockchain space for providing delightful experiences that connect projects with users. Galxe is partnering with Succinct to bring the verifiability of ZK to all raffles.
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John Guibas

The Succinct Prover Network Testnet is Live

We’re excited to announce Level 1: Crisis of Trust, Succinct’s first testnet program. Starting February 10th, 2025, participants in Level 1: Crisis of Trust will be able to earn stars by generating zero-knowledge proofs.
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Kshitij Kulkarni

Tales from the ZK Residency: Herodotus Builds a Coprocessor with SP1

At the Succinct ZK Residency, Herodotus developer Pia Park contributed to building hdp-sp1, a ZK-coprocessor that allows you to easily access verified onchain data with SP1. In this interview, we speak with Pia about her developer experience, her motivation for building this project, and her time at the residency.
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Kshitij Kulkarni

Tales from the Hacker House: Building an Attested Image Editor

Saul and Pablo built an in-browser attested image editor with SP1 at Upgrade the Internet, a hacker house hosted by Succinct, Celestia, and Conduit at ETHDenver. In this post, we cover their motivation for building this project, the technical challenges they faced, and the details of their implementation. Image provenance is an exciting new category for ZK applications. Try out the image editor here.
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John Guibas

SP1 Security Update

There were two vulnerabilities found in SP1 V3, one found by Aligned, LambdaClass, and 3MI Labs and one found by Succinct. There was also one vulnerability found in Plonky3, a critical dependency of SP1, by Lev Soukhanov and Onur Kilic. We sincerely thank these researchers for reporting these issues. These three vulnerabilities are now patched in SP1 Turbo, the latest production version of SP1. We recommend all users of SP1 upgrade to Turbo ASAP, and we have frozen the routers to the SP1 verifier contracts deployed on mainnets. Succinct has communicated with all known customers about these security issues, and notified all users on the SP1 Telegram.
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Uma Roy

Using ZKPs on Solana with the SP1 Solana Verifier

Bringing Scalable, Zero-Knowledge Proofs to the Solana Ecosystem Our blazing fast zkVM SP1 now has a Solana verifier. Developers who want to use ZKPs on Solana for scalability (network extensions or large-scale ZK coprocessing) and privacy use cases (verifiable credentials, ZK KYC, confidential AMMs) can now easily use ZKPs by writing Rust and generating proofs with SP1.

Meet the team

Here are the people behind the Succinct

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Uma Roy
Co-Founder & CEO
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Crashout
Community Lead / Team Pink
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Dan Hennessy
Marketing & Creative / Team Purple
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Advaith
Dev at Succinct/ Team Blue
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fakedev9999
Op-succinct / Team Green
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K Kulkarni
Team Orange

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