Succinct raises $55M led by Paradigm to make zero-knowledge proofs accessible to any developer

We're thrilled to announce we've raised $55M led by Paradigm to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer. The total raised comes across a Seed and Series A round with participation from Robot Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Geometry, ZK Validator and angels including Sreeram Kannan from Eigenlayer, Sandeep Nailwal and Daniel Lubarov from Polygon and Elad Gil. ZK proofs are one of the most critical technologies to blockchain scaling, interoperability and privacy, but are too complex for most developers today. Succinct’s mission is to lower this barrier with our zkVM, SP1, and our decentralized prover network. SP1 is the first 100% open-source zkVM performant enough to rival custom ZK circuits. With SP1, developers can use ZK with normal programming languages, reuse existing crates and libraries, and iterate quickly with auditable and maintainable code. SP1 shows that an extremely optimized, general-purpose system can match the performance of hand-written, specialized approach

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