It’s crazy to see this day finally here. The past 3 years since starting Succinct have been a wild journey with so much blood, sweat and tears—but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. No one thought ZK could be easy—I remember a year into building Succinct, John & I went to our investors and told them we wanted to build a zkVM. We knew ZK had tremendous potential, but the state of ZK development was broken. Building anything required a cryptography PhD and insane pain. They laughed and asked if it was possible for our team (with 0 formal cryptography training) to build something that technically difficult. Even if we could, they thought it would take at least 2 years. Honestly, we weren’t even sure we could build it. But after many months of 9-9-6, when we launched SP1 as the fastest zkVM, we proved everyone wrong. No one thought ZK would have adoption—Once we had SP1, it was obvious that this was a step-function change in ZK technology. Finally, you could just write programs in Rust, stick it in SP1 and prove anything. But, then people started asking: who will actually use this magical tech? Do rollups even want to use ZK? What’s ZK’s use-case beyond just zkEVMs? After 35+ customers and $4B in TVL secured across many applications like rollups, exchanges and more, Ethereum L1 going all-in zkVMs with real-time proving, it’s clear ZK has real utility and adoption. We proved them wrong. No one thought ZK could be fun—In crypto, having Real Tech TM isn’t always the full story. For so long ZK has been academic and hard to understand for a broader audience. Our testnet was the first time I saw broader CT find ZK fun. And our community has been creative beyond belief—with talented artists, 3d animators, web devs, writers and more. We proved them wrong. The proving economy is going to 100x from here. With the launch of our prover network mainnet, we finally have the ingredients to make ZK adoption go 100x. SP1 makes ZK easy to use. The prover network makes it cheap, fast, and ready for global-scale use. One day the Succinct Prover Network will prove every transaction that is onchain, and power ZK applications beyond just blockchains. Shout-out to the incredible Succinct team who has tirelessly worked since the beginning. It’s been the journey of a lifetime to work alongside everyone, continuously break the meta, and one-up everyone’s expectations in achieving the impossible 💗 From the past 3 years, I know our team can accomplish anything we set our minds to. It’s just the beginning and we have so much left to PROVE. Onwards.