Hylé joins the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council

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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 Hylé, the lean blockchain for provable applications, has joined the ZkBoost Consortium. The Council Seat will be held by Sylve Chevet, co-founder & CEO.

Previously a product manager at Ledger, Sylve later co-founded the NFT protocol briq with his business school friend Lancelot de Ferrière. Together, they launched Hylé in 2024. Sylve sees provable apps as essential to privacy and freedom, two of his core values.

“Zero-knowledge proofs make blockchain technology accessible. With ZKPs, an ID card, an email address, or a passport can serve as a seamless wallet or unique identifier. You don’t need to onboard 8 billion people on the blockchain —they’re already here.

But today, they're still hard to use, and that will remain an issue until we've standardized and streamlined how developers should work with them. That's what Hylé is for, and the zkBoost Consortium with it: standardizing, and therefore democratizing, proof generation and usage.

We are excited to have been one of the earliest members of the zkBoost consortium. Together with all the best companies in our industry, we’ll be able to discuss proof generation and find the solutions that will make it as easy and seamless as possible.

A whole provable future awaits us, and the only way to push our vision forward is to collaborate on the standardization and simplification of the zero-knowledge proof industry. I’m excited for the journey ahead!” said Chevet.

Gevulot 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 Hylé:
Hylé is a lean blockchain that lets you easily take your provable application onchain. Hylé reduces verification costs and allows any developer to build off-chain applications backed by ZKPs. This maintains blockchain security without compromising on performance.

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