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race to mainnet-grade L1 zkEVMs

learn about the rules to the race and watch it unfold in real-time

phase 2 of 5
complete
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security sprint

working on M1: soundcalc integration

2025 - 2026

no cohort
Mar 12 – Mar 19
no provers eligibleprovers must hit score targets
evaluated vs. eligible provers
weekly eligibility for all evaluated 1:1 multi-GPU provers
evaluated3 provers
eligible0 provers
ZisK Sevilla Cloud Cluster
60%
Pico 16x5090
0%
Airbender 8x5090
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
150,453proofs
≤10 secs
72.4%
stunned
17.4%
paralyzed
0.04%
offline
10.2%
current:72.4% sub-10s
target:70%

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

proof time distribution
timing across blocks for all evaluated provers
total proofs135,086
sub-10s (RTP)108,903
RTP rate80.6%
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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