zkVerify 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 zkVerify, the modular blockchain for ZK proof verification, has joined the ZkBoost Consortium. Rolf Versluis, Growth Lead at the zkVerify Foundation and Co-Founder of Horizen, will hold the Council Seat.

Rolf Versluis co-founded Horizen ($ZEN) in 2017. He currently works as Growth Lead for both the Horizen and zkVerify Foundations.

Before co-founding Horizen, Rolf built and operated a Bitcoin and Ethereum mining facility, and provided mining how-to videos on his YouTube channel.

Before working in web3, Rolf was a US Navy nuclear submarine officer operating out of Hawaii. After 5 years of military service, Rolf worked in the semiconductor industry then at Cisco Systems. He also founded and operated for 14 years, then sold a 60-person Information Technology company in Atlanta.

At zkVerify we are deeply committed to advancing ZK technology's capabilities, specifically in proof verification. We provide a solution to significantly reduce costs by developing a dedicated blockchain strategically designed for ZK with highly optimized verification architecture, overcoming the limitations of any other chain that requires intensive and gas-consuming operations to verify proofs. We believe with ZK technology we can drastically reduce the proof verification cost, while unlocking cross-chain scalability for an abundance of use cases in gaming, AI, databases, privacy, and more!

So many amazing projects, protocols, and companies are innovating in the zero-knowledge technology space, more than ever before and that brings in opportunities for incredible innovation and growth in 2025.

As more and more users spend more and more time online, privacy and keeping our data safe has never been more important. Zero-knowledge technology plays an important role here, helping safeguard user data, following regulations, and meeting user demands. Many blockchain networks face scalability issues, with high transaction costs and slow speeds as adoption grows, which is where zk rollups come in. We believe ZK has uses beyond just ZK rollups. ZK Rollups were the first to use them widely, but there is still so much more to be done with them. We are already unlocking those use cases in other industries, like gaming (with Pixelvault), Private DeFi (with Singularity), Proof of Humanity (with Zerobase), and Proof of SQL (with Space and Time). Transactions can be bundled together and then verified via a ZK proof on-chain, lowering cost and improving performance.

With the continued adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in 2025, ZK technology can enable additional privacy, security, scalability, and data protection and that is why we are so excited to see where zero knowledge technology goes in 2025.

We’re building towards a world where ZK proofs are generated in many different ways and places:

Private communication
Private voting and polling
Proving randomness
Providing information flows from Web2 to Web3 applications

Every proof generated needs to be verified!

For zkVerify, working with members of the ZkBoost Consortium speeds the adoption of ZK proofs in all these useful areas, plus reduces friction for all ZK projects when integrating with each other as ZkBoost is all about developing ZK standards for interoperability. We are excited and proud to join the shared commitment to advancing zero-knowledge technology and making it accessible for all.

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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zkVerify is a modular blockchain dedicated to efficiently verifying ZK proofs across diverse blockchain stacks, created for Ellipsis Distributed Systems by Horizen Labs. It enables any Layer 2 projects and dApp developers that utilize zero knowledge to scale rapidly and cost-effectively by drastically reducing proof verification costs without compromising network performance.

Designed for seamless integration with existing blockchain networks, zkVerify minimizes technical overhead and provides a developer-friendly environment. By simplifying the ZK proof verification process and reducing associated costs, zkVerify enhances the performance of existing blockchain networks and unlocks new capabilities within the broader Web3 ecosystem.

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