With the conclusion of the third round of the testnet on September 27, Lumoz has officially entered the countdown to mainnet launch. The number of participating nodes in Lumoz's third round of the testnet reached 752, attracting over 1 million users, and the total number of verifications submitted has exceeded 7 million times. This article will dissect Lumoz's ecological development strategy and business competition strategy, exploring how new players should correctly enter the ZK-Rollup ecological track.
Starting from the Technical Bottom: Innovating OP Stack + ZK Technology Optimization Architecture
From a technical perspective, Lumoz's technical team and overall strength can be described as luxurious.
Lumoz is a globally distributed modular computing network that combines with the DePIN network to provide users with a powerful, secure, and flexible computing platform. This network focuses on providing advanced zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) services, supporting the development of Rollup networks, and offering robust computational capabilities for cutting-edge technologies such as AI. Lumoz effectively addresses the high costs and low efficiency issues faced by Rollup projects while also lowering the threshold for ordinary users to participate in the ZK computing market. Since 2023, Lumoz has completed Seed, Pre-A, and Strategic rounds of financing, with participating VCs including OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, Polygon, Kucoin Ventures, IDG Blockchain, and others, raising a total of over $14 million.
Lumoz's OP Stack + ZK technology optimization architecture has brought revolutionary improvements on multiple levels. By integrating ZK-Proof technology, Lumoz has created a brand new zk-proposer component, significantly reducing integration and maintenance costs. Meanwhile, through on-chain data synchronization and optimized proof processes, the overall security and stability of the network have been unprecedentedly enhanced.
The uniqueness of this architecture lies in optimizing the ZK Fraud Proof module, allowing nodes to quickly achieve seamless switching from OP-Stack to zk-Verifier, further enhancing the flexibility of the entire ecosystem. Additionally, by replacing the traditional challenge mechanism with non-interactive ZK proofs, Lumoz accelerates the verification process, setting a new benchmark for the scalability of blockchain networks. While enhancing speed, security, and flexibility, Lumoz's new solution also ensures a high degree of consistency between on-chain data and off-chain states through logical optimization of verification contracts, truly achieving a balance between technological innovation and practical application.
In terms of the testnet, following the participation of over 280,000 people in the first two rounds and more than 60 cooperative ecological projects, the third round of the testnet has significantly increased this data to over 1 million participants and more than 200 cooperative ecological projects. Regarding node sales, since the launch of node sales in June, sales have been extremely robust, and the Tier 8 nodes are nearly sold out, with cumulative node sales exceeding 80,000 (out of a total of 100,000), and FDV exceeding $160 million.
A solid underlying technical strength is a fundamental guarantee for occupying ecological niches, but to stand out in this highly competitive track, it is still necessary to find some 'out-of-the-box' creativity.
ZK-RaaS Shovel Seller Role: How to Promote Its Own Ecosystem Towards Prosperity
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In Lumoz's ZK-RaaS ecosystem, Lumoz plays the role of a 'shovel seller', providing crucial infrastructure support to other projects, helping them achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Projects like Merlin and HashKey Chain can avoid the complexity of building their own Rollup infrastructure by using Lumoz's ZK-RaaS services, directly benefiting from Lumoz's powerful ZK-Rollup and hybrid consensus mechanism, significantly enhancing system security and operational efficiency. Lumoz's decentralized Prover mechanism ensures simultaneous participation of multiple miners in ZKP calculations, allowing for faster transaction confirmation speeds while also reducing reliance on single points of failure. This technology not only saves project parties hardware and operational costs but also ensures their security and scalability when facing large volumes of users and transactions.
For users, by participating in Lumoz's node operations, they have the opportunity to receive airdrop rewards from multiple public chains, effectively providing them with a ticket to access dozens of public chain ecosystems. This approach allows users to profit within a broader ecosystem, increasing their stickiness and participation in Lumoz. Lumoz continues to expand partnerships, and its innovative ZK-RaaS business model has attracted numerous Layer 2 projects such as ZKFair, Merlin, Duckchain, Ultiverse, and HashKey Chain, as well as chains based on Lumoz that are being issued or are about to be launched.
In addition, the recent addition of projects such as Moongate, 0G Labs, and Swan Chain has injected new vitality into the Lumoz ecosystem. By continuously expanding market collaborations, Lumoz not only maintains its technological forefront but has also gained extensive recognition in the market, promoting rapid expansion of the ecosystem and forming a prosperous situation driven by both technological innovation and market application. This model benefits both project parties and users, while further consolidating Lumoz's leading position in the ZK-RaaS track.
In the RaaS track, Lumoz demonstrates strong advantages through ZK-Rollup technology. Based on cryptographic foundations, Lumoz's ZK-Rollup not only enhances the security of data and transactions but also ensures decentralization and resource mobilization through its PoS and ZK-POW hybrid consensus mechanism. The market-based computing power mechanism of ZK-POW effectively incentivizes miners to participate, providing ample support for the computational demands of ZK-Rollup. In contrast, other RaaS projects typically rely on a single consensus mechanism, making it difficult to compete in terms of security and scalability. Lumoz also supports multi-chain deployment, giving developers greater flexibility to choose the appropriate chain based on their needs. This architecture not only meets the current technical requirements for RaaS services but also provides strong scalability support for more complex future applications, such as AI processing, giving Lumoz a unique advantage in the RaaS track.
Future Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Coexist
As Lumoz officially enters the countdown to mainnet launch, tremendous opportunities and challenges coexist. With its innovative ZK-PoW algorithm and powerful ZK-RaaS ecosystem, Lumoz has already demonstrated its technical capabilities and market attractiveness during the testnet phase. Against the backdrop of the upcoming mainnet and TGE launch, Lumoz is expected to continue expanding its ecosystem, attracting more projects and users to join.
However, as competition intensifies, Lumoz still faces many challenges in further optimizing technology, maintaining decentralization, and responding to ever-changing market demands. Currently, Lumoz is at the forefront, amidst high enthusiasm, with voices of support and opposition from the community rising and falling. How to maintain a leading edge in technological innovation after the official mainnet launch and ensure continuous attraction of high-quality ecological partners and community cohesion will be the key to future success.
Ultimately, only technology + strength + community is the true core growth strategy of any project.
