Off-Chain Lab is playing zero-knowledge play for Arbitrum.
Its venture studio tandem took part in a succinct one-year exclusive partnership to build ZKVM tailored to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
The agreement, announced Tuesday, binds both companies to cooperate solely with each other in the effort. “For a year, the off-chain lab tandem has signed a brief, exclusive commercial agreement to create a ZKVM for the arbitrum chain,” an off-chain lab spokesperson told BlockWorks.
The team declined to comment on whether the partnership represents all cash transactions or includes token swaps. The Concise Foundation launched its Proof Token earlier this month.
This partnership accelerates the broader off-chain lab strategy for zero-knowledge proof. CEO Steven Goldfeder previously explained that ZK technology is not yet competing with optimism that proves “in terms of speed cost and maturity.”
But this is beginning to change, Goldfeder said in an interview with Bankless. “It’s not available yet, but it’s important to note that they can quickly choose to add ZK proofs to the chain, especially for those who build on track stacks.”
The concise one brings its rust-based SP1 ZKVM and a concise Prover network (now live on MainNet) to the table, and is designed to create zero-knowledge proofs that are both accessible and performance-friendly for developers. That technology has already supported dozens of deployments across the industry, including Celestia, Crossover, Available, Mantle, Polygon, and more.
“I’m sure every rollup will use ZK,” said Uma Roy, a brief CEO. “Providing the Arbitrum chain is our number one priority.”
Rather than converting Arbitrum One completely into ZK-Rollup, the partnership focuses on providing arbitrum Dao and orbital chains. “We’re building a foothold,” Goldfeder said. “It will be deployment or DAO that will adopt it.”
Ira Oerbach, the head of the tandem, emphasized that modular ZK proofs can dramatically reduce the time from days to minutes to minutes.
“The (simple) approach is directly aligned with our vision of how Arbitrum and the broader blockchain ecosystem will evolve,” says Auerbach.
