Ankr joins the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council

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Jan 21, 2025

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ZkBoost is a generic abstraction for outsourced proving. In practice, it is a kind of proxy node that proving services and networks can integrate with, providing a single, standardized API for projects in need of proof generation to access all proving options.

The purpose of the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council is to collaboratively develop standards for proof supply chain abstraction. We invite all ZK-rollups and proving services to unite in architecting and funding ZkBoost, a generic abstraction for outsourced proving.

Currently, 42 companies have now opted to join the Governing Council, which consists of a diversified group of organizations and enterprises including Layer 1s, other major Layer 2 partners, and a multitude of prover networks. With a range of industry roles, all companies who have vowed to participate are collectively committed to governing and extending ZkBoost’s capabilities, with the core mission of bringing decentralization to the proof supply chain.

We’re excited to announce that Ankr, Web3’s fastest and most reliable infrastructure provider, has joined the ZkBoost Consortium. The Council Seat will be held by Stanley Wu, Ankr’s Co-Founder and CTO. Stanley commands over a decade of experience developing solutions for large-scale cloud computing services, including brands like Amazon. He is exceptionally skilled in engineering for ZK tech, blockchain technology, and decentralized finance. At Ankr, Stanley is the driving force behind combining cloud computing and blockchain for innovations such as their Web3 API service, ZK ID verification, RaaS, and liquid staking that move the entire industry forward.

"We've known for a long time that zk-proofs are critical to the future of how we build and scale decentralized systems. This made us excited to join the Consortium that makes it easy for L2s and ZkApps to source zk-proof generation."

— Stanley Wu, Co-Founder & CTO of Ankr

In joining the ZkBoost Consortium, Ankr is positioning itself at the cutting edge of Zk-proof generation for 2025. We want to make it as easy as possible for developers to build new applications of ZK tech by allowing them to outsource their proving needs by reaching a single, unified API.

ZkCloud is funding early work on ZkBoost, but our goal is for this to be a public good, open-source software. To formalize how this implementation should be governed to ensure neutrality, apply to join the Governing Council of the ZkBoost Consortium.

We’ll be announcing the rest of the Governing Council members weekly over the coming quarter, so stay tuned to learn more about the folks participating in this innovative initiative.

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About Ankr:
Ankr is an all-in-one Web3 developer hub that provides a full suite of tools to build Web3 apps and power them with high-performance connections to 65+ blockchains. They provide multi-chain dApp development tools, blockchain engineering services, crypto staking solutions, and a globally distributed node infrastructure that makes it all possible. Ankr’s solutions make it easy for anyone to build and earn on Web3 and participate in the crypto economy for a more decentralized, democratic, and user-owned web experience.

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