=nil; Foundation joins the ZkBoost Consortium Governing Council
2025 is the year of ZK!
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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.
The Council Seat will be held by Avi Zurlo, =nil; Foundation CEO. Avi previously served as the Foundation’s Chief Product Officer for nearly a year and formerly led investments at Delphi Digital for 25+ early-stage crypto projects. The =nil; Foundation is excited to announce that the team behind =nil;, an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding, has joined the ZkBoost Consortium.
=nil; Foundation has been at the forefront of ZK research and development since 2018, launching the first ZK proof market and procedural circuit compiler. The team has also developed a full vertical ZK stack based on their cryptography library Crypto3 and proof system Placeholder.
Since November 2023, the team has been focused on building a novel blockchain architecture - zkSharding. zkSharding powers =nil;’s Layer 2 and uses ZK and sharding to enable horizontal scaling.
As ZK experts, the =nil; Foundation team are convinced that ZK is key to efficiently scaling blockchains. Collaborating with leading ZK teams within the ZkBoost Consortium ensures we’re taking ZK beyond its current limitations. 2025 is the year of ZK.
This consortium represents the best of what zk technology has to offer—diverse, robust, and focused on scalability. Through the zkBoost API, we are unlocking new levels of efficiency, making zk-proofs more adaptable and ready for widespread adoption.
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.
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Founded in 2018, =nil; Foundation is building =nil;, an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding, an architecture inspired by Ethereum's original vision for sharding, revitalized by zero knowledge technology. =nil; enables application developers to access the scale of appchains with the composability of a monolithic chain.
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