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![jay_candoit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1581607564625715201.png) Jay 🕊 [@jay_candoit](/creator/twitter/jay_candoit) on x 1161 followers
Created: 2025-07-21 06:50:46 UTC

zk compute ain’t cheap.
you either burn GPUs or wait hours.
but @boundless_xyz changed the game.

they dropped a reverse Dutch auction system:
requests start cheap
price ticks up till a prover locks it.

so instead of paying top dollar,
requesters only cough up the bare minimum
needed to get work done.
that’s gas saved, budget kept.

now provers?
they’ve got two plays:

🟣 wait + grab:
watch the bid rise, strike when it covers your cost.
no stake, just pure compute.

🔒 lock + stake:
lock the job early with $ZKC stake.
win exclusivity, deliver on time or get slashed.
fail? your stake becomes a bounty for others.

this ain’t a one-chain wonder.
@boundless_xyz runs across ETH, OP, Base –
provers battle globally, requesters stay local.

they’re already proving with RISC Zero.
but the engine’s modular.
SP1, Jolt, whatever’s next, they’ll plug it in.

so now zk proving becomes a market.
open, real-time, and brutally fair.

honest compute gets paid.
lazy provers get slashed.
and requesters don’t overpay.

this is what zk infra was missing.
welcome to the proving pit.

gBerry to the berryfied ones 🫡

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XXX engagements

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**Related Topics**
[budgeting](/topic/budgeting)
[money](/topic/money)
[locks](/topic/locks)
[auction](/topic/auction)
[reverse](/topic/reverse)
[zk](/topic/zk)

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