Why do we even need ZK in the first place? Most advanced dapps hit the same wall: > Keep everything on-chain: trustless but slow, expensive and super limited > Move logic off-chain: powerful, but users have to trust a black box ZK is how you open that black box. You run heavy stuff off-chain, then ship a tiny proof on-chain that anyone can verify in milliseconds. That is why @brevis_zk is interesting to me: > Pico zkVM turns complex computation into verifiable proofs at near real-time for Ethereum blocks > Their ZK data coprocessor lets protocols use full chain history for rewards, discounts, points etc, without asking users to trust a private server More compute, more data, same trust assumptions.

So many ZK projects that are popping up this year must be a sign that the narrative is becoming popular