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race to mainnet-grade L1 zkEVMs

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phase 2 of 5
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security sprint

working on M2: 100-bit provable / 600 KiB

2025 - 2026

zkVMguestcluster
soundcalc
AntChain OpenLabs
zkDTVM 8x5090
zkDTVM
evmone
8 x 5090
98.84%
98.88%
$0.0053
evaluated vs. eligible provers
weekly eligibility for all evaluated 1:1 multi-GPU provers
evaluated5 provers
eligible1 provers
Zisk 16x5090
68%
Axiom 16x5090
24%
zkDTVM 8x5090
12%
Pico 2x5090
0%
Zilkworm Airbender 2x5090
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
251,120block slots
≤10 secs
49.3%
stunned
10.2%
paralyzed
0.03%
offline
40.5%
current:49.3% 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 proofs149,418
eligible123,855
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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