Paradigm-supported Succinct completes the World Chain verification pilot, paving the way to become a ZK rollup.

Gate News bot message, Succinct, which received investment from Paradigm, has completed a seven-day World Chain Mainnet verification pilot.

The pilot project uses cryptographic proofs to validate each transaction and block without the need to re-run the entire blockchain. This indicates that even large networks based on OP Stack, such as World Chain, can ultimately become a ZK rollup.

“World Chain has challenged us to prove that ZK can operate at their scale,” said Uma Roy, co-founder of Succinct, in a statement. “By completing this pilot project, we have demonstrated that the technology is ready for production, paving the way for World Chain to become a ZK rollup when the time is right.”

World Chain is an Ethereum-based, EVM-compatible Layer 2 blockchain supported by Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman. Succinct points out that among the OP Stack-based chains, its activity is only surpassed by Base and OP Mainnet, with over 5 million active users and a TVL exceeding $250 million each month.

The team stated: “Until today, people still believe that due to the limitations of zero-knowledge proof (ZK), large blockchains must adopt an optimistic rollup architecture.” This pilot used Succinct’s OP Succinct system (a lightweight integrated system that allows any OP Stack Rollup to become a ZKrollup) and 800 GPUs to prove that ZK technology is ready for application in large-scale blockchains in the real world.

Source: The Block