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race to mainnet-grade L1 zkEVMs

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phase 2 of 5
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working on M1: soundcalc integration

2025 - 2026

zkVMguestcluster
soundcalc
ZisK
ZisK Sevilla Cloud Cluster
ZisK
revm
24 GPU
83.65%
99.97%
$0.0378
evaluated vs. eligible provers
weekly eligibility for all evaluated 1:1 multi-GPU provers
evaluated6 provers
eligible1 provers
ZisK Sevilla Cloud Cluster
80%
Airbender 8x5090
20%
Axiom 16x5090
0%
Pico 16x5090
0%
ZKsync Airbender 2 GPU
0%
zilkworm-airbender-2-gpus
0%
eligible
not eligible
sorted by weeks eligible

Key insight: Each segment is one weekly snapshot. a filled segment means the prover met eligibility thresholds that week. Gaps reveal weeks where performance or liveness dropped below requirements.

RTP prover performance
aggregated success rate for all evaluated provers
251,250proofs
≤10 secs
62.6%
stunned
12.9%
paralyzed
3.51%
offline
20.9%
current:62.6% sub-10s
target:70%

Key insight: Green shows sub-10s successes (the goal). Yellow (stunners) and red (paralyzers) should be minimized. A healthy cohort is 70% green.

proof time distribution
timing across blocks for all evaluated provers
total proofs189,827
eligible157,279
eligible rate82.9%
≤10s (RTP eligible)
>10s (stunners)

Key insight: Green bars above the threshold are RTP-eligible. Most proofs should cluster in the 8-10s bucket. If 0-5s grows, proving is getting faster. If gray bars grow, investigate the cause.

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