# zkEVM

Ethereum just chose security over speed — and that’s bullish long-term
For the past year, the zkEVM world was obsessed with one thing: latency.
And honestly? We won.
Proof times went from 16 minutes → ~16 seconds.
99% of Ethereum blocks can now be proven in under 10 seconds.
Costs collapsed. Hardware targets were hit.
On Dec 18, the Ethereum Foundation said it clearly:
“Real-time proving works.”
But here’s the real takeaway
Speed without soundness is dangerous.
EF is now drawing a hard line:
⇒ No more “security if assumption X holds”
⇒ No more hand-wavy math
⇒ 128-bit provable security or it