It's been a year and a half since we first announced OP Succinct: our flagship product to secure blockchains with ZK technology. Today, we're proud to be working with @base, one of the largest L2s, to secure billions in assets on their chain.

AI makes every fake: the latest generation of AI models have crossed the rubicon. You cannot trust what you see online. Every day, people are fooled by fake content; from the mundane (is the Pope wearing Balenciaga?!) to the consequential (did Iranian missiles actually strike Tel Aviv)? Cryptography makes it real again: cryptography offers us a way out. By combining cryptographic hardware and software, we can prove authenticity of content--images, video, audio--at the source. This will become the canonical way to prove what's real. Huge respect to @balajis, who is always ahead of his time and has been discussing these ideas for many years. It was a pleasure to riff with him on the Network State pod!

Awesome to see @Google using SP1 to generate a ZK proof of the quantum circuit at the heart of their Shor’s algorithm attack on ECDSA. Beyond the landmark quantum result itself, this is a genuinely novel application of ZK, one that we should expect to see a lot more of. ZK lets you prove that you know a protocol is insecure without revealing the underlying attack. This opens up a new paradigm, “ZK disclosure”, whereby frontier labs can surface dangerous vulnerabilities without handing a loaded weapon to the world. Quantum computing is a great first use case, but the same logic applies wherever there is a gap between “proving something is broken” and “responsibly sharing the proof”. This includes AI alignment, zero-day exploits in critical infrastructure, and biosecurity. Exciting times for ZK and cryptography more broadly!

Since a few people have asked me-- I had no idea Google's quantum team was using SP1. I found out when @sreeramkannan texted me late last night and then I saw @hosseeb post. I was like "hm, wait...that looks very familiar..."

Never been a more urgent need to Prove What’s Real Prove What’s Real = prove who you are (identity, biometrics, proof of presence) + prove what you do (authenticity of images, video, audio and other content)

Some great work from the @SuccinctLabs team benchmarking and breaking the leading AI image detectors! Image generation models like Nano Banana and Grok have made it possible to generate photorealistic images at mass scale. Just like adversarial examples became commonplace with the advent of GANs, this study shows that simple edits to AI generated images, such as blurring and noise, can fool even the most sophisticated detectors. This suggests the need for an end-to-end solution to the deepfake problem that doesn't rely on a "cat and mouse" game between attacker and defender. That solution is to use cryptography to establish truth at point of capture. In short, to Prove What's Real.

The internet is about to become a very strange place… We need (1) proof of humanity and to (2) prove what’s real ASAP And every major social network needs to integrate these technologies in the next 6 months before all of this goes extremely downhill

Any sufficiently powerful technology (AI) requires an equally powerful counterweight (ZK). As AI accelerates, cryptography will help humans reclaim identity, authenticity and sovereignty on the Internet.