[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Meera🌸🎀♋️ [@meerah_babs95](/creator/twitter/meerah_babs95) on x XXX followers Created: 2025-07-22 19:06:07 UTC Been spending time under the hood with @cysic_xyz lately, and I’m convinced: this might be the most serious infrastructure play in ZK right now. It’s not just a prover network. It’s not a bunch of GPUs thrown at the problem. Cysic rebuilt the entire stack starting from the chip, all the way up to the chain. Most ZK projects today are stuck dealing with painfully slow, expensive proving. And if you’re a team building in this space, your options are bleak: ➠Either you spin up your own proving infra (which is a headache) ➠Rely on some off-chain centralized service, which breaks trust ➠You just avoid ZK altogether because it’s too heavy to deal with. Cysic said No to all of that. They designed their own custom ASICs specifically for ZK, starting with the C1 chip optimized to run cryptographic workloads like Keccak orders of magnitude faster than generic chips. On top of that, they’ve tuned a full GPU stack to accelerate the proving process for circuits written in Halo2, Plonky2, Gnark and others. And instead of relying on some off-chain coordinator, they built their own chain built with the Cosmos SDK to manage how provers and verifiers interact in a fully decentralized way. The end result is kind of wild: You can now submit a proof job directly onchain. A random set of provers is selected using verifiable randomness. The fastest ones compete to generate the proof. Then a set of verifiers checks it, and once it passes, you get back a trustless zk receipt that’s ready to be used in any app, rollup, or identity layer. But what really stuck with me is how this changes the proving game entirely, Proving isn’t a service anymore, it’s a market. Anyone can spin up a prover node and earn by delivering valid proofs. No wasted compute. No passive machines. Just raw, proof-generating horsepower competing on-chain. Cysic didn’t just build fast proving. They made ZK compute composable, verifiable, and alive.  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [all the](/topic/all-the) [just a](/topic/just-a) [not a](/topic/not-a) [zk](/topic/zk) [hood](/topic/hood) [Post Link](https://x.com/meerah_babs95/status/1947734921654501684)
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Meera🌸🎀♋️ @meerah_babs95 on x XXX followers
Created: 2025-07-22 19:06:07 UTC
Been spending time under the hood with @cysic_xyz lately, and I’m convinced: this might be the most serious infrastructure play in ZK right now.
It’s not just a prover network. It’s not a bunch of GPUs thrown at the problem.
Cysic rebuilt the entire stack starting from the chip, all the way up to the chain.
Most ZK projects today are stuck dealing with painfully slow, expensive proving.
And if you’re a team building in this space, your options are bleak:
âž Either you spin up your own proving infra (which is a headache)
âž Rely on some off-chain centralized service, which breaks trust
➠You just avoid ZK altogether because it’s too heavy to deal with.
Cysic said No to all of that.
They designed their own custom ASICs specifically for ZK, starting with the C1 chip optimized to run cryptographic workloads like Keccak orders of magnitude faster than generic chips.
On top of that, they’ve tuned a full GPU stack to accelerate the proving process for circuits written in Halo2, Plonky2, Gnark and others.
And instead of relying on some off-chain coordinator, they built their own chain built with the Cosmos SDK to manage how provers and verifiers interact in a fully decentralized way.
The end result is kind of wild:
You can now submit a proof job directly onchain. A random set of provers is selected using verifiable randomness.
The fastest ones compete to generate the proof. Then a set of verifiers checks it, and once it passes, you get back a trustless zk receipt that’s ready to be used in any app, rollup, or identity layer.
But what really stuck with me is how this changes the proving game entirely, Proving isn’t a service anymore, it’s a market. Anyone can spin up a prover node and earn by delivering valid proofs.
No wasted compute. No passive machines. Just raw, proof-generating horsepower competing on-chain.
Cysic didn’t just build fast proving. They made ZK compute composable, verifiable, and alive.
XXX engagements
