Odaily Planet Daily News According to official sources, zkWasm L2 project Fluent has announced the launch of its private testnet V2. This version includes two key enhancements: an enhanced version of Rust SDK and 100% EVM compatibility. Developers can build smart contracts in Solidity and Vyper and use the newly improved Rust SDK.

Odaily Planet Daily News Messari released the NEAR 2023 Q4 status report, the key points are as follows: -NEAR Network Daily Active Address increased 1,250% year-over-year to nearly 1 million; -NEAR's outstanding Market Cap grew 245% quarter-over-quarter to $3.7 billion, outpacing the 54% growth of the overall Crypto Assets market; this quarterly growth brought NEAR to 246% year-over-year growth, ranking around 30th among all crypto projects. The NEAR Foundation has introduced several important technological developments, including the NEAR Data Availability Layer, the L2 Rapid Finalization Layer in collaboration with Eigen Labs, and the zkWasm developed in collaboration with Polygon Labs.

PANews news on December 22, the NEAR official team said that the second phase of Sharding will be launched next year and stateless verification will be introduced. This will extend the original Nightshade design, allowing NEAR to avoid fraudulent proofs. The state of each Shard is completely moved into memory, improving the performance of each Shard by more than 10x. The next step will be to add zkWASM to the existing one, which will compress the proof of execution, allowing for greater decentralization of validators.

Odaily Planet Daily News The NEAR official team said that the second phase of sharding will be launched next year, introducing stateless verification. This will extend the original Nightshade design, allowing NEAR to avoid fraudulent proofs. The state of each Shard is completely moved into memory, improving the performance of each Shard by more than 10x. The next step will be to add zkWASM to the existing one, which will compress the proof of execution, allowing for greater decentralization of validators.

DeFi and on-chain ML portal HyperOracle has announced that it is integrating with Polygon CDK to provide computing power to Polygon builders, Golden Finance reported. The latest zkOracle integration allows builders to extend EVM capabilities to enable on-chain AI and advanced computing using the Polygon CDK. In addition, HyperOracle is working with Delphinus Lab, the first open-source zkWASM virtual machine, to develop a zkWASM prover.

Polygon Labs has announced a joint development of a Wasm zero-knowledge provator with the NEAR Foundation to bridge the gap between Wasm-based chains and the Ethereum ecosystem. The zkWasm prover will add additional customizability to developers built with the Polygon CDK (Chain Development Kit).

PANews reported on November 8 that the NEAR Foundation announced that it would cooperate with Polygon Labs to build a zkWASM based on Polygon CDK, aiming to develop a zero-knowledge proof for the WASM blockchain. The zkWASM proprof will be an upgrade to the NEAR validator, which brings the NEAR protocol closer to Ethereum and enables WASM chains to leverage Ethereum liquidity, paving the way for greater trustless interoperability between the NEAR and Ethereum ecosystems, including NEAR. The zkWASM attester is currently under active development and is expected to be launched next year. In addition, the NEAR Foundation became a core contributor to the Polygon CDK.

According to news on September 27, EthStorage teamed up with Hyper Oracle and Delphinus Lab to release the zkGo compiler. According to reports, zkGo is based on the latest Go 1.21.0 and is the first to compile regular Go code into ZK protocol-compatible Wasm code. The generated Wasm code execution can already be zero-knowledge proof and on-chain verified by Delphinus Lab’s zkWasm tool.

Odaily Planet Daily News EthStorage teamed up with Hyper Oracle and Delphinus Lab to release the zkGo compiler. According to reports, zkGo is based on the latest Go 1.21.0 and is the first to compile regular Go code into ZK protocol-compatible Wasm code. The generated Wasm code execution can already be zero-knowledge proof and on-chain verified by Delphinus Lab’s zkWasm tool. As an important application of zkGo, zkGo has successfully compiled Optimism's Fraud Proof's L2 Geth (also known as op-program-client) to generate Wasm code compatible with the ZK protocol. The current Wasm code has passed the zkWWasm dry run and will help implement ZK Fraud Proof technology in the future.

On July 8th, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Global Blockchain Industry Summit Forum, AntChain announced that the privacy collaboration platform AntChain FAIR has undergone a new architecture upgrade, introducing zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) as the core verifiable computing technology, from Trusted data flow extends to the verifiability of computing processes, data attributes, and identities. In addition, AntChain FAIR adds a new type of zero-knowledge proof virtual machine zkWASM to the trusted computing architecture to achieve instruction-level provable features. It can rely on the WASM multi-language ecology to prove and transform algorithm programs written in multiple front-end languages without caring about the underlying layer. Complicated algorithm details improve the friendliness of development and application. FAIR is a privacy collaboration platform launched by AntChain for data transfer. It integrates the advantages of blockchain and privacy computing. The collaboration process is driven by smart contracts, and the data transfer is solved by a privacy computing engine. The rights are confirmed and registered through blockchain technology. And transaction consensus can solve the natural contradiction between data sharing and privacy protection in the process of data circulation. At present, FAIR has been applied in many data exchanges such as Hangzhou Data Exchange and Guishu Exchange.