Proof requests, period
requestsRequests posted to the proving market contracts in the selected period.
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ZK Proving Markets: Proof Requests and Prover Rewards
How many ZK proofs are bought on decentralized proving markets, what do they cost and what do provers earn?
ZK proving markets on Base and Ethereum: proof requests, proofs delivered, prices paid, prover rewards and the stake behind provers.
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Blueprint
What the dashboard will show.
The dashboard as it will open in Vantage. Each figure is named here and arrives with its receipt; until its data is published, its place stays empty.
Market
Proof requests, deliveries and prices.
Fulfilled on time
%Requests fulfilled before their deadline as a share of all requests whose deadline fell in the period.
Median price paid
USDThe median price requesters paid for a fulfilled proof in the period, valued at the payment block.
Missed deadlines
requestsRequests whose prover failed to deliver in time, which slashed its collateral.
Requests by day and outcome
requestsDaily requests on each network, split into fulfilled, missed and still open.
Provers
Who proves, what they earn and what they stake.
Active provers
proversProver addresses that fulfilled at least one proof in the period.
Stake and collateral
tokensZKC locked as collateral on Boundless and PROVE staked to provers on Succinct at the latest block.
Prover earnings by day
USDRequest payments and token rewards that provers received each day, by network.
Provers ranked
Each prover with proofs delivered, its share of the market, fees earned, token rewards and the collateral or stake behind it.
- Network
- Boundless, Succinct or both
- Period
- Last 7, 30 or 90 days
About
What it answers, and for whom.
Zero-knowledge proofs let a rollup, bridge or app prove that a computation ran correctly, but generating them takes heavy hardware. Proving markets turn that work into an open market: a requester posts a job and a price, provers compete to take it and the proof is verified on-chain before payment. This dashboard tracks the markets that settle on-chain, from their contracts.
Two designs lead. Boundless runs its market contracts on Base, where a prover locks ZKC as collateral to take a request and loses part of it if it misses the deadline. Succinct's prover network settles to Ethereum, where provers stake PROVE and delegators can back them. The dashboard counts requests, fulfilled and missed proofs, prices paid and what provers earn on each network.
Method
How it will be measured.
Every figure will be read at a block, kept with its source and its exact read, and open a receipt anyone can re-check.
How receipts work →- Boundless requests are read from its market contract on Base: each request submitted, locked by a prover, fulfilled or expired, with its price and the collateral locked.
- Succinct activity is read from its settlement and PROVE staking contracts on Ethereum, with fees and rewards as those contracts record them.
- A proof counts as delivered only when the market contract records it as fulfilled after on-chain verification; expired requests and slashed collateral are counted apart.
- Prices and rewards stay in the token they were paid in, with USD values from oracle prices at the same block where a feed exists.
The data it needs
Chain data, with some off-chain sources
- protocol_revenue_dailyTo buildProtocol fees, revenue and buybacksFees users paid to each protocol and the part kept by the protocol or its token holders, per protocol and day, including buybacks.
- token_supply_dailyTo buildToken supply by dayTotal supply of each registry token on each chain at day end: wrapped BTC, liquid staking tokens, tokenized assets and other tracked tokens.
- l2_activity_dailyTo buildLayer 2 activity and costsPer layer 2 per day: transactions, active addresses, fees users paid on the L2, and what the L2 paid Ethereum to settle and post data.
- native_prices_dailyTo buildOracle prices by dayReference prices of major assets read from on-chain oracle feeds (Chainlink latestRoundData) at each day's last block, with each round's update time.
- Boundless market contract events on Base: request submitted, locked, fulfilled and slashed
- ZKC collateral deposits and withdrawals in the Boundless market
- Succinct settlement and PROVE staking contract events on Ethereum
- Verifier contract calls that accept each delivered proof
Questions
Questions people ask.
What is a ZK proving market?
A marketplace where anyone who needs a zero-knowledge proof posts a request and a price, and independent provers compete to generate it. A verifier contract checks the proof before the prover is paid, so the buyer does not have to trust whoever produced it.
Who buys ZK proofs?
Rollups that prove their state to Ethereum, bridges and light clients that prove another chain's consensus and apps that move heavy computation off-chain and prove the result. Each request on the dashboard is labelled by requester where the requester is known.
What happens if a prover misses a deadline?
On Boundless, the prover's locked collateral is slashed: part is burned and part is offered as a bounty to whoever completes the proof. On Succinct, a prover's stake is what holds it to delivering on time. The dashboard counts missed deadlines and slashed collateral.
How do provers earn?
Provers earn the price of each request they fulfil, paid by the requester. Both networks also add token rewards: Boundless distributes ZKC to provers by verified work each epoch, and Succinct pays fees in PROVE that are shared with the prover's delegators.
Why track proving on-chain?
Proof volumes are rarely published in audited form. Requests, fulfilments and payments that settle on-chain can be counted directly, so the market's real size and its prices can be checked without relying on announcements.
- Prover
- An operator that runs the hardware to generate zero-knowledge proofs and submits them for verification.
- zkVM
- A virtual machine whose execution can be proven, so ordinary programs can produce zero-knowledge proofs of their results.
- Collateral
- Tokens a prover locks when it takes a request, forfeited in part if it fails to deliver in time.
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