Compute 101 → ZK, minus the fluff. Zero knowledge = prove it happened without leaking the “how.” Powerful, but proving is heavier than doing so the only way this scales is serious horsepower wired into a real market. That’s where @cysic_xyz is playing. ❯ Practical shift: Cysic’s already a multi-node prover on Succinct’s SP1 (Jul 17, 2025), so rollups can route jobs to real GPUs today lower $/proof and tighter p95 when blocks get spicy. ❯ Next leg: custom silicon. The C1 zkVM-based chip (with ZK-Air & ZK-Pro devices) is their path to 10×+ proving speedups i.e., proofs moving at network speed, not deck speed. ❯ My read: verification’s cheap, proving’s the tax. If the hardware plan lands, that tax shrinks and ZK stops being a novelty and becomes default infra. --- Dev notes I’m tracking: ❯ Bench $/proof and p95 with/without a Cysic prover on the same SP1 job. ❯ Watch ASIC release notes for power, throughput, and memory-bound bottlenecks. ❯ Keep receipts (txs, logs); weigh latency vs. reward flow as workloads spike. Net: ZK turned “trust me” into “verify me.” ComputeFi turns that verification into an economy cycles you can point, price, and own. If you’re testing, drop your benches; I’m grading curves, not slogans.