Succinct Goes Live: The Dawn of Decentralized Prover Networks Hits Mainnet

Blockchain's trustless future just got a major upgrade—Succinct's decentralized prover network is now live. No more centralized bottlenecks, no more opaque verification. Just math-enforced truth.

Why this matters

Provers are the unsung heroes of ZK-rollups, crunching cryptographic proofs to keep L2s honest. Succinct's decentralized approach slashes costs and democratizes access—because apparently, Wall Street hasn't cornered the market on verification fees yet.

The tech under the hood

By distributing proof generation across a permissionless network, Succinct cuts single points of failure while boosting throughput. Think of it as a mechanical Turk for zero-knowledge proofs—except the workers are nodes and the payouts are in ETH.

What's next?

With mainnet launch achieved, the race is on to onboard L2s. Ethereum scaling solutions get first dibs, but cross-chain support is inevitable. Because in crypto, if you're not multichain, you're basically writing checks your chain can't cash.

Succinct announced the mainnet deployment of the Succinct Prover Network, a decentralized infrastructure enabling anyone to request and verify zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs from a global network of provers. The launch also activates the PROVE token, which provides the economic foundation for paying provers and securing the network, enabling a universal payments rail for all ZK-enabled infrastructure.

The network already supports over 35 leading protocols, processes proofs from 1,700 unique programs, and has secured over $4 billion in value. More than five million proofs have been fulfilled to date for protocols such as Polygon, Mantle, Celestia, and Lido. The system will power everything from Ethereum, which has made ZK a top priority on its roadmap, to rollups that process tens of thousands of transactions per second for compute-intensive applications like trading, AI agents, and more. 

“Our goal from the start was to make proving infrastructure accessible at internet scale,” said. “Going from whitepaper to a working mainnet in eight months shows what’s possible when engineering and cryptography come together with focus.”

The network operates as a two-sided marketplace on Ethereum: applications submit proof requests, and independent provers compete to fulfill them. This unlocks ZK technology for developers without custom infrastructure, making verifiable computation as simple as calling an API. The result is crypto-native infrastructure that delivers security, transparency, and scalability by default.

“With mainnet live, Succinct is ready to support the next generation of applications that require verifiable computation,” said. “We believe ZK proofs will become the standard for how crypto integrates with the broader internet, and we’re proud to lead that shift.”

Developers interested in using the Succinct Prover Network can start building today by visiting docs.succinct.xyz.

Succinct is the decentralized prover network that makes zero knowledge easy for everyone. By offering accessible, scalable infrastructure for verifiable computation, Succinct helps developers build trustless applications without compromising on performance or usability.