Succinct and OP Labs team up on ZK rollups

Succinct Labs and OP Labs have collaborated on a zero-knowledge proofs solution that significantly improves transaction finality and gas costs compared to optimistic rollups.

On Sept. 11, Succinct Labs announced its partnership with OP Labs, a startup contributing to the development of the Optimism (OP) protocol, to create OP Succinct.

OP Succinct by Succinct Labs and OP Labs

Paradigm-backed Succinct and OP Labs’ collaboration on OP Succinct combines the general-purpose zero-knowledge virtual machine SP1 with OP Stack to deliver a zkEVM rollup.

With this new solution, upgrading OP Stack chains to utilize zero-knowledge proofs is now cheaper and faster. According to Succinct Labs, OP Succinct is also highly customizable.

“The modular design of the OP Stack makes it easy to convert an OP Stack rollup to a ZK rollup. OP Succinct’s two-step integration requires minimal code and easily fits into existing deployments–including rollup-as-a-service setups,” Succinct Labs posted on X.

Fast finality and lower gas costs

The ZK rollup development adds to the growing layer 2 scaling solutions ecosystem, with off-chain transaction proofing offering fast finality and reduced gas costs.

OP Labs and Succinct Labs, which secured $55 million in Paradigm-led funding rounds in March 2024, are bringing this to the market with OP Succinct.

Being able to upgrade an OP Stack to use ZKPs within an hour vastly improves the fraud-proof window of seven days applicable to standard optimistic rollups. Proving costs are also at 0.5 to 1 cent, compared to higher costs of 1.34 cents on OP Mainnet and 1.11 cents on OP Sepolia.