Soon, we’re sunsetting ZkCloud Firestarter.

Over the past months, Firestarter has proven itself as the first production-ready universal proving network for zero-knowledge (ZK) compute. We prepare for the next chapter of ZkCloud, and retiring Firestarter creates the way for the launch of a new version of the network.

What is Firestarter?

Firestarter has been built as a high-performance compute network optimized for ZK. As a universal prover network, it supports arbitrary provers: users can generate proofs using one of the pre-deployed provers, such as RISC Zero, SP1, ZKsync or Polygon, or by deploying their own prover binaries.

Under the hood, Firestarter is a Cosmos SDK-based chain that manages an arbitrarily large set of provers.

A new chapter begins

The sunsetting of Firestarter marks the beginning of a new chapter. We’ll soon release the next version of the network and continue to work with a select group of prover node operators from Firestarter.

As part of this transition, Firestarter’s codebase will be fully open-sourced, enabling any developer to make use of or contribute to the architecture that powered the network.

In parallel, we're actively preparing for the mainnet launch of ZkCloud. Our public testnet for decentralized validator onboarding and block building, Deluge, has been running since March. We are wrapping up tests and launching the ZkCloud Mainnet in the coming weeks.

We plan to integrate the next version of Firestarter into our testnet, Deluge, and gradually migrate use cases to the ZkCloud mainnet. This allows us to accelerate transitioning workloads to the mainnet as opposed to maintaining a separate network, as was the case with Firestarter.

Proof generation continues

Even though Firestarter is being retired soon, we continue to generate ZK proofs for networks such as Ethereum, Aztec and others, and for zkVMs like SP1 and R0VM.

Since 1 April, we’ve generated 400K proofs only for Ethereum: this covers proving basically every block. You can track the progress of the Ethereum mainnet proving on the staging interface of Ethproofs.

If you are interested in exploring proof generation with ZkCloud, reach out to Norbert from our team (TG handle: @vadasnorbert).

Stay tuned for more details on what’s in the pipeline at ZkCloud.

The future is zero-knowledge.

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About ZkCloud:

ZkCloud, built by Gevulot, is the first universal proving infrastructure for ZK. Generate ZK proofs for any proof system at a fraction of the cost. Fast, cheap, and decentralized.

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