The State of ZK - Q2 TL;DR

Hey there!

What a quarter! Here's a summary of what happened during Q2 in the ZK space (you can read the full report on the link below):

• ZK Research continued in Q2 with the release of new papers on sum-check protocols, optimizations around small fields and ZK hardware.

• zkVMs took center stage, with Jolt, SP1, and Risc Zero each releasing updates that pushed the boundaries of verifiable computation.

• This quarter also witnessed the first mainnet launch of a ZK application platform, with Mina’s Berkeley upgrade. Their zkApps environment will make building ZK applications much more accessible to non-ZK-native developers, and we expect other programmable ZK platforms, such as Aleo and Aztec, to launch soon as well.

• In terms of ZK applications, several new products addressing payments, on-ramps, voting, and ID were announced or released this past quarter.

• On the ZK Supply Chain front, we saw additional teams announce their plans include a prover marketplace in their systems, and a new category of project emerged in this stack — proof verification aggregators.

Read the full report here: https://zkv.xyz/the-state-of-zk-report/