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The Map of ZK

A list of categorised projects pushing
the ZK ecosystem further.

ZK Projects in 2024

This map was curated and organised by the ZKV team, but if you see any errors in our categorisation or believe there are important projects missing, please contact us about it at [email protected]

ZK projects in 2024

Payments

ZKP2P

ZKP2P is a trustless peer-to-peer (P2P) fiat to crypto onramp and offramp powered by ZK.

Payy

A self-sovereign bank using stablecoins and a private, scalable payments blockchain.

Daimo

A self-custody stablecoin app on Ethereum.

Zcash

A privacy L1 powered by ZKPs focused on payments.

ZK Rollups

Aztec

A zk-rollup focused on privacy, enabling confidential transactions on Ethereum using zk-SNARKs.

zkSync

A layer 2 scaling solution that allows fast and low-cost transactions on Ethereum using zk-rollups.

Taiko

A based rollup with a focus on full compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

Scroll

A zk-rollup aimed at replicating the Ethereum development experience.

Polygon zkEVM

A virtual machine that combines the scalability of zk-rollups with full EVM compatibility,

Linea

An EVM-equivalent ZK rollup that provides a scaling solution for Ethereum.

Manta

An EVM-compatible network that offers support for decentralized applications and uses Celestia for data availability

Starknet

A layer-2 scaling solution that uses a zero-knowledge rollup based on StarkWare's trustless “STARK” proof.

Identity

ZK Email

An app that allows users to anonymously prove any subset of any email sent or received, on-chain.

zkLogin (Sui)

A Sui primitive that allow signing in on dApps with familiar web2 credentials.

Keyless (Aptos)

Aptos Keyless allows users to gain ownership of an Aptos account from their existing Web2 accounts.

zPass (Aleo)

A protocol on the Aleo blockchain that uses ZK for Decentralized Identity verification.

Privado

A protocol that provides privacy focused tools to put users in control of their identity across every digital surface.

zkPassport

An Identity Infrastructure provider for Web3.

Semaphore

A ZK protocol that allows you to cast a message as a provable group member without revealing your identity.

Rarimo

A privacy-first (ZK) social protocol.

World ID (Worldcoin)

A privacy-first decentralized identity protoco to prove humanity, without sharing personal data.

Holonym

A protocol that It allows organizations and smart contracts to verify their users without storing their users' sensitive information.

Open Passport

A protocol that lets applications check their users are humans while preserving their privacy.

Verida

A full stack development framework and decentralized personal data network for Web3.

zk.me

Identity Oracles that leverage the power of zero-knowledge-proofs to enable secure and private credential verifications.

Terminal3

Verifiable Private Identity

Gaming

Immutable

An L2 on Ethereum designed for NFTs and gaming.

Dark Forest

The world's first decentralized real-time strategy game. Built on Ethereum with zkSNARKs.

Cartridge

An operator of a decentralized gaming platform.

Blade

A fully on-chain gaming studio.

Zypher

An on-chain gaming platform that provides a decentralized and provably fair gaming experience.

Tileville

On-chain city development arcade game built on MINA.

Ronin Chain

An EVM blockchain crafted for developers building games with player-owned economies.

zkRace

A metaverse project focused on creating a virtual NFT horse racing ecosystem.

Argus

The developer of the Gamechain SDK, a sharded rollup architecture for onchain games.

zkHoldem

Fully On-chain Texas Hold’em powered by zkSNARK

DeFi

Panther Protocol

A ZK cross-chain layer supporting regulated Zones for privacy-enabled DeFi.

Renegade

An on-chain dark pool built on Arbitrum, bringing hidden-size midpoint-pegs to DeFi.

Offshift

"Shifting mechanism" that allows users to Shift between their native token and a full palette of private synthetics.

Penumbra

A Cosmos SDK L1 offering shielded assets across the interchain.

Dark.fi

An L1 for anonymous engineering: the emerging art of building privacy-first applications.

Privacy L1s

Mina Protocol

A lightweight blockchain platform, renowned for its small fixed-size blockchain of 22 KB, powered by ZKPs.

Namada

An L1 for interchain asset-agnostic data protection.

Aleo

A programmable L1 for ZK applications.

Penumbra

A Cosmos SDK L1 offering shielded assets across the interchain.

Horizen

A blockchain ecosystem focused on privacy and scalability, using its sidechain solution, Zendoo.

ZCash

An L1 powering a decentralised and anonymous payment system.

Aleph Zero

A layer 1 that enables teams to deploy scalable, secure, and ZK privacy-enhanced products

Anoma

A protocol aimed at enabling private, intent-based transactions within and across different networks.

Midnight

A compliant data-protection blockchain.

Hardware

Irreducible

A proving as a service provider using FPGA-accelerated server clusters.

Ingonyama

A semiconductor company focusing on ZKPs hardware acceleration.

Cysic

A real-time ZK Proof Generation Layer with their own hardware and prover network.

Supranational

A startup focused on building specialised software and hardware for advanced cryptographic computation.

Fabric

A company building a cryptographic computer.

Prover Networks

Lagrange

A decentralized network for reliable generation of different ZK proofs with high liveness guarantees.

Gevolut

Permissionless and programmable L1 for deploying proof systems as on-chain programs.

Succinct

A decentralised prover network

Nexus

Prover-optimised zkVM.

Fermah

Universal Proof Market

Snarkify

Decentralized proving platform.

Proof Verification

Nebra

Proof aggregator from any ZK circuit.

Aligned

ZK circuit agnostic proof verification platform.

Hylé

An L1 focused only on verifying zero-knowledge proofs.

Sharp

A system designed to generate STARK proofs for aggregated Cairo programs.

Lagrange

Hyper-Parallel Computations & Proving.

zkVerify

A blockchain designed to provide ZKP verifications for any project or dApp using ZKPs.

Coprocessors

Axiom

Supports computing over the entire history of Ethereum, verified by ZK proofs on-chain.

Brevis

A trustless ZK Coprocessor.

Herodotus

Storage proofs.

Marlin

A verifiable computing protocol featuring TEE and ZK-based coprocessors

Ritual

AI coprocessor.

VLayer

Trustless verifiable data infrastructure powered by zero-knowledge proofs

Cross Chain

Union

Infrastructure layer that unifies networks, unlocking horizontal scalability for any protocol.

Hyperlane

An open interoperability framework for blockchain smart contract devs and users.

AggLayer by Polygon

Enables sovereign chains to securely share liquidity, users, and state.

Succinct

Grants the ability to read Ethereum state securely across multiple supported chains.

=nil; foundation

zkSharding combines a sharded architecture with zk security.

Zeko

A zero-knowledge, cross-chain scaling protocol built on Mina.

Elastic Chain by zkSync

A network of ZK Chains (rollups, validiums and volitions), secured by math and interoperable.

Verifiable Compute

Risc Zero - zkVM 1.0

A General Purpose zkVM.

Succinct - SP1

zkVM that can prove the execution of arbitrary Rust (or any LLVM-compiled language) programs.

Lita - Valida

A modular zkVM.

a16z - Jolt

A zkVM for RISC-V.

Ola

An open-source hybrid zkVM rollup for Ethereum.

NovaNet

Modular ZKP incentive network that brings privacy-preserving proofs to browsers, consumer devices, and across blockchains.

ZKM

An Entangled Rollup Network, where blockchains can share native assets with no added security assumptions.

ZKML/AI

EZKL

An engine for doing inference for deep learning models and other computational graphs in a zk-SNARK.

Modulus Labs

Enable secure and transparent AI models that can be trained and deployed on-chain.

zkAGI

A decentralised privacy-focused AGI.

Noya

Trustless Omnichain AI Agents

ZKML

Developing solutions in the intersection of ZK and AI.

ZK TLS

Pluto

A cryptographic proof of correct internet data.

Opacity

A protocol that connects provers and verifiers for trustless sharing and verification of information.

Reclaim

A protocol that allows users to bring their data across websites.

TLS Notary

An open-source protocol that can verify the authenticity of TLS data while protecting privacy.

zPass (Aleo)

A protocol on the Aleo blockchain that uses ZK for Decentralized Identity verification.

Private Compute

Aztec

A zk-rollup focused on privacy, enabling confidential transactions on Ethereum using zk-SNARKs.

Aleo

A programmable L1 for ZK applications.

ZK in Bitcoin

Alpen Labs

ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin.

Citrea

ZK Rollup on Bitcoin.

BVM

A platform to launch ZK Rollups on Bitcoin.

GOAT Network

BTC L2 offering BTC Yield.

LayerEdge

Verification layer on Bitcoin

R&D

Geometry

Focused on security, scalability and privacy of protocols.

Lambda Class

Deep tech venture studio and investment firm

zkSecurity

Audits and development firm.

Nethermind

Research and engineering firm.

Zellic

Audits that stop bugs.

Voting

Vocdoni

Open, secure, and universally verifiable voting protocol

Semaphore

Anonymous interactions powered by ZKPs.

zSociety

A community of builders dedicated to creating a world empowered by privacy and decentralization.

Misc.

Clique

Verifiable Compute.

Railgun

A smart contract system that enables Zero-Knowledge Privacy for any on-chain dApp.

OpenBlock

A decentralized network for data provenance and settlement.

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