The entire Crypto Native narrative will revolve around zk-SNARKs.

Author: Haotian Source: X, @tmel0211

ZK is Endgame → ZK Everything.

To be sure, believe, and affirm, the entire Crypto Native narrative will fully unfold around ZK (Zero-Knowledge Proofs). Why?

1) The next step in Ethereum's Roadmap has clearly pointed towards "ZK" transformation, with technological iterations focused on streamlining consensus strategies and achieving L1 high-performance goals to realize zkVM.

The iterative demands of the Ethereum ecosystem will inevitably drive the emergence and competition of various ZK infrastructure, attracting a large number of developers and capital investment, which will be the next wave of a definitive direction in the construction of infrastructure.

2. Projects like RiscZero (Boundless) and Succinct, which are leading ZK infrastructure projects, have successively conducted their TGE, setting a good precedent. As providers of leading ZK proof technology, the breakthroughs of these projects validate the feasibility of "Proof as a Service," transitioning from a laboratory concept to actual commercialization.

Especially the decentralized proof network of RiscZero and the scalable off-chain execution capability can compress the traditional complex computing costs by an order of magnitude (from the original 0.01%), or even lower. The qualitative breakthroughs in speed, cost, and scalability will provide the prerequisites for the outbreak of more high-performance DEXs and verifiable AI chains.

3. The multi-chain environment, where everyone wants to launch a chain, will inevitably lead to an explosion in the demand for interoperability, which perfectly aligns with the permissionless and trustless characteristics of ZK technology. The more infrastructure there is and the more complex the interaction environment becomes, the more the underlying architectural advantages of ZK technology can be highlighted.

The order book tree structure optimized for perpetual contracts, such as Lighter, and the specific ZK-Rollup paradigm where Prover and Sequencer work in parallel, can attract market attention while demonstrating strong product capabilities, which is a good testament.

Overall, if the ZK of the previous layer 2 era was just shouting the slogan of Endgame, then now, with the infrastructure and applications being relatively mature, ZK has truly come to the time to prove its value.