ZKsync Unveils Airbender, Fastest ZK Prover for Ethereum Layer-2

  • Matter Labs, the development team behind the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution ZKsync, has introduced its new open-source cryptographic prover, Airbender, during the Permissionless conference. Airbender is a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) that delivers Ethereum block proofs in just 35 seconds using a single GPU, making it the fastest prover of its kind in the zero-knowledge ecosystem.