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Created: 2025-07-19 13:05:10 UTC
OP Succinct Is No Longer Just a Cool Idea It’s Powering Real Rollups Now
A little over a year ago, Succinct Labs and OP Labs announced OP Succinct, a way to bring zero-knowledge proofs to the OP Stack. At the time, it sounded like the kind of thing you’d hear about at a conference: promising, exciting, but maybe still a year or two away from reality.
That’s changed. Fast forward to mid-2025, and not only is OP Succinct live it’s being used in production by projects like Mantle Network, with more rollups actively exploring or integrating it.
Here’s a look at what’s happened since the launch and why OP Succinct still matters.
First, a Quick Recap: What is OP Succinct?
OP Succinct is a proving system that adds zero-knowledge proof capabilities to the OP Stack (the infrastructure behind Optimism and many other Ethereum L2s). Instead of relying on long fraud-proof windows like traditional optimistic rollups, it lets rollups confirm transactions in hours, not days.
It’s built on Succinct’s own SP1 zkVM which, importantly, is open source and designed to be flexible enough to support both full ZK rollups and hybrid models.
Mantle Went All In
The biggest vote of confidence so far? Mantle Network fully migrated from an optimistic rollup to a ZK rollup using OP Succinct in December 2024.
What that actually means:
Withdrawal finality dropped from around X days to just X hour
They used a modular stack Rust based OP Stack (Kona), EigenDA for data availability, and Succinct’s prover network for fast proof generation
This wasn’t a testnet. Mantle shipped it in production. And that matters because it shows OP Succinct isn’t just experimental infrastructure. It works.
Then Came OP Succinct Lite
Not every rollup is ready to move to full ZK. Some want something lighter, something in between. That’s where OP Succinct Lite comes in.
Released in February 2025, Lite mode lets rollups stick with an optimistic-style setup but settle disputes with ZK proofs if and when they happen. That brings a few big advantages:
Faster resolution (about X day)
Lower bond requirements
No need to generate proofs for every single transaction
It’s a smart bridge between optimistic and ZK rollups. Projects like Phala and others are already working with it.
The Latest Release: v2.3.0 (May 2025)
Succinct has also been steadily improving the core codebase. In May 2025, they released version 2.3.0, which added:
Upgrades to the dispute game infrastructure
Support for more data availability layers
Performance and memory improvements in their proposer and prover tools
In short: it’s getting more efficient, more modular, and easier to plug into different rollup setups.
What It All Adds Up To
Between the production rollout on Mantle, the release of OP Succinct Lite, and ongoing updates, it’s clear this isn’t just a research project anymore. It’s live tech. And it’s being taken seriously by teams building real infrastructure on Ethereum.
It’s also worth noting that OP Succinct has stayed developer-friendly. Teams don’t have to rebuild everything to start using it. In many cases, they can integrate it into existing OP Stack deployments with minimal changes.
Final Thoughts
In a world full of scaling ideas and half launched protocols, OP Succinct stands out for one simple reason: it shipped. It’s running today, on live chains, saving time and money for real projects.
And with teams like Mantle, Phala, and Katana betting on it and regular updates still rolling out it’s likely we’ll be seeing a lot more of it as ZK rollups continue to mature.
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