I played a few rounds of bees, and the leaderboard has risen again, so happy! The officials revealed that the TGE at the end of September is not far away, right???
Moreover, today @ZKVProtocol has welcomed a key development: the mainnet deployment has entered the "golden stage," and the TGE is not far away. Looking forward to it.
Many people's first reaction is: another chain? Actually, it is not at all.
Its positioning is more like a ZK proof highway—helping all chains and applications accelerate verification, rather than competing for users with everyone else.
📅 The official schedule is very clear:
Q4 officially launches the mainnet
Key initial landing scenarios: DeFi, gaming, AI auditing, identity verification
Integrate into the L2 and multi-chain ecosystem, rather than doing things in isolation.
🔍 From the testnet transcript, ZKV does have some hard power:
Verification time is less than 1 second, which is an order of magnitude faster than Ethereum's 12 seconds block time.
Throughput 12 proofs/s, supports multiple applications in parallel
Sepolia & Base Sepolia has undergone thousands of verifications and passed stability tests.
💡 Technical Highlights:
Compatible with mainstream frameworks such as SP1, Risc0, Circom, anyone can use it.
The VFlow parachain has completed the XCM cross-chain preparation, which is not a single environment, but a true cross-ecosystem.
Connecting with popular L2s like Arbitrum and Optimism indicates that it is not operating in isolation, but rather integrating into the existing market.
📌 What I value more is its strategic location:
DeFi: Real-time settlement can avoid the liquidation caused by being "one step slow."
Game: monster hunting, trading, PVP no longer lags, ZK has transformed from an academic concept into the underlying engine of player experience.
AI Audit: Conclusions given by AI can be quickly verified on the chain, solving the trust issue of "AI nonsense."
Identity verification: On-chain KYC or access mechanisms can ensure privacy by only exposing necessary information.
Looking at the entire track, everyone's understanding of ZK is still stuck at "proof is very cool, very expensive, and very slow." ZKV's ambition is to turn this into a low-cost, easily accessible public service.
Combined with the Hackathon and points activities they are promoting, it is clear that they are preparing for a developer cold start. Once the mainnet is launched, it will suddenly be able to support a bunch of application scenarios.
In summary:
The goal of ZKV is not to roll out a single chain, but to make zero-knowledge proofs the "tap water" of Web3—available everywhere and affordable for everyone.
2025 will most likely be its true mainnet year.
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