The blockchain world has always faced a problem: performance has stifled imagination. Every transaction must be recalculated by all nodes, and the network resembles an outdated machine, unable to operate quickly.
In 2021, RISC Zero showcased the potential of zkVM, allowing developers to generate zero-knowledge proofs using Rust and Solidity. This was the first step in bringing ZK into real-world applications.
A few years later, @Boundless took up the baton. It is not just a virtual machine, but a universal protocol that provides proofs as a service to all chains.
Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Rollup can all obtain new computing power through it. In 2024, Boundless launched a collaborative development program, and early builders began testing. In 2025, Mainnet Beta launched, with over 20 ecosystem partners joining and hundreds of thousands of users participating, proving the potential of this network.
The core mechanism of @Boundless is called Proof of Verifiable Work. Prover nodes no longer compute meaningless hashes but generate real zero-knowledge proofs. Each proof is collateralized and incentivized using ZK Coin (ZKC). Success brings rewards, while failure incurs penalties. As requests increase, more ZKC are locked, binding the security and value of the entire network together.
The Boundless mainnet is now live. Developers can bypass gas limits to build high-throughput applications; nodes can turn hardware into income sources; cross-chain applications can directly read the state of different networks.
The significance of this journey lies in that Boundless allows blockchain to move beyond the dilemma of "scarce computing" and towards infinite scalability, similar to the internet.
