Real-time proving moves to viable infrastructure. This unlocks synchronous composability. In a talk at @EthPrague, @jbaylina revealed how @ziskvm solved the fundamental bottleneck in zero-knowledge proving: latency. The @ziskvm team has been asking: Can we prove an Ethereum block in real time? The answer, with benchmarks: Yes. Under 3 seconds from bundle to proof. Basically it's the technical spine of the @etheconomiczone framework to reunify fragmented Layer 2s through synchronous composability. So let's dive into it Zero-knowledge proving is parallelizable... except for the one thing that matters most: execution. When you prove a program, you must execute it step-by-step. You can parallelize witness computation (turning execution traces into constraints), GPU cryptography (Fourier transforms, polynomial commitments etc), and proof aggregation. But execution itself is serial. This creates a hard ceiling: You cannot prove faster than the code executes. For Ethereum blocks (thousands of transactions), this means minutes of latency. For cross-chain composability, minutes are unacceptable. You have 12 seconds per Ethereum slot to: 1. Bundle transactions from multiple rollups 2. Prove they're atomic (all succeed or all fail) 3. Settle on Ethereum mainnet The math doesn't work. Unless you solve the execution bottleneck. Zisk's innovation is smart. Don't speed up execution. Parallelize everything else so much that execution becomes irrelevant. The five techniques they have 1. Pipelining: prove while preparing 2. Precompiles: offload to native code 3. Transpilation: Run RISC-V at Intel speeds 4. Memory Logging: Enable multi-process execution 5. Distributed Proving: Cluster-ccale parallelization More importantly: Proving can be decentralized. No central coordinator needed—just minimal, deterministic coordination. So, why this matters for @etheconomiczone? The @etheconomiczone is a framework to unify fragmented Layer 2s through synchronous composability. The problem it solves: Today, if you want to swap on your fav DEX (Ethereum) and borrow from lending market (let's say on Arbitrum) in one transaction, you can't. You bridge and take risk. (async, risky, slow etc). The EEZ solution: 1. Bundle transactions from both L2s and Ethereum 2. Prove they're atomic (execution tables) 3. Settle on Ethereum For this to work, proving must be fast enough to fit in Ethereum's block time. @ziskvm makes this feasible. Without real-time proving: EEZ becomes another bridge ecosystem (async, complex, risky). or With real-time proving: Atomic composability is possible within 12 seconds. What's next - v1.0 beta coming in weeks - Formal verification is ongoing - Security audits are underway - This is bleeding-edge, not battle-tested like Ethereum - The team has 5+ years building Hermez and Polygon zkEVM in production - The code is open-source and testable now @jbaylina's message is super clear. The technical bottleneck is solved. It works. Now let's decentralize it and handle edge cases. The @etheconomiczone is no longer a vision. It's a technical feasibility with real benchmarks. Now the work is hardening, auditing, and decentralizing. But the core breakthrough is proven. Totally worth a watch ↓ link ↓

0/ Clear signing is now live. An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default. This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senate Banking Committee releases crypto Clarity Act draft bill.

ICYMI: $TON ran +115% this past week while most of the market stayed flat. Here’s the 30s breakdown, with 3 main reasons: ❶ @telegram Took Operational Control → May 4: @durov announced Telegram is now @ton_blockchain’s largest validator → Staked ~2.2M TON, funding additional validators → Replaces the TON Foundation as the network’s operational steward → “Make TON Great Again” (MTONGA) roadmap, with a renewed focus on blockchain distribution to 1B+ users - ❷ The ~400 ms Block Times + Sub-cent Fees ▸ Catchain 2.0 → Block times: ~2.5s → ~400ms → Throughput: ~10x increase → Finality: ~1 second ▸ Fee cut ~6x → Transaction cost: ~0.00039 TON → ~$0.0005 → Micropayments, tips, and mini-app loops become practical at scale - ❸ Staking & Ecosystem Momentum ▸ Staking APR pushed past 20% in some validator sets ▸ More TON locked → less circulating supply → potential supply shock ▸ New tooling and performance upgrades in ~2–3 weeks (per Durov) ▸ SCRYPT integration for stablecoin access (USDT on TON) → already live ▸ TON Teleport BTC bridge → targeted for later this year ▸ Ongoing mini-app and TON Connect expansion - TON now has three things L1s almost never get, plus massive distribution, but there are some concerns on my end "1B+ users" is a top-of-funnel number, not a TON-user number → TON wallet activations are still a small slice of Telegram's user base. → Mini-app DAU is the metric that matters. It hasn't increased significantly alongside the price. → Distribution access ≠ distribution conversion. So, what do you think? Are we about to see TON become the leading L1?

Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month. 0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history. 1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews. 2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism. 3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems. 4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default. 5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption. 6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet. 7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement. 8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents. 9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits. 10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem. 11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics. 12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space. 13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon. 14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely. 15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists. 16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America. 17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams. 18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users. 19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital. 20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet. 21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.