Solana welcomes its most significant upgrade in years: ZK Compression
High-performance L1 blockchain Solana is preparing for the activation of ZK Compression technology on mainnet, which is expected to change the way Solana (SOL) dApps scale and significantly reduce computational costs.
ZK Compression is a significant upgrade to Solana's rate and performance metrics, aiming to reduce the size of ZK proofs while maintaining efficiency and safety. This technique allows blockchain systems or applications using ZK technology to process and store information more efficiently, especially when it is necessary to prove the correctness of large amounts of information. without revealing sensitive details.
Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, a Solana infrastructure application, expects this advancement to bring a “10,000x scale improvement” to Solana's L1 design.
In terms of cost efficiency, ZK Compression delivers over 5,200 times cheaper transactions, as revealed in Mumtaz's calculations.
Technically, the upgrade will compress the size of Solana's blockchain state. Since state is the most resource-intensive component of the Solana (SOL) blockchain, enabling compression significantly reduces hardware costs and overall blockchain performance.
