Key Highlights
- 20, 2025 at 11:52 am UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
- Image includes combined content which may include AI-generated content.
- The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency.
- Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds on target hardware. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared victory on Dec.
- 18: real-time proving works.
