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ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Shatters Records: Ethereum Blocks Verified in Just 35 Seconds

ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Shatters Records: Ethereum Blocks Verified in Just 35 Seconds

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Coindesk
Published:
2025-06-24 19:00:00
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 ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Proves Ethereum Blocks in 35 Seconds

Move over, slowpokes—ZKsync just dropped a scalability nuke. Their Airbender zkVM isn’t playing nice with Ethereum’s congestion problems. Thirty-five seconds. That’s all it takes now to verify blocks, while legacy chains are still sipping coffee in line at the validator café.

How? Zero-knowledge sorcery meets optimized VM execution. No more waiting for confirmations like some DeFi peasant. Airbender cuts through cryptographic overhead like a hot knife through institutional-grade FUD.

Of course, the crypto hedge fund bros will spin this as ‘bullish infrastructure’—right before they front-run retail on the next memecoin pump. But for builders? This is the real deal: Ethereum scaling without compromising decentralization. Finally.

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