Original source: Brett Carter, Vice President of Boundless Products
Original translation: peggy

After the official launch of Boundless, we can finally take a moment to reflect on this journey and look forward to future directions. This successful release is not just a technical milestone but an important step towards our vision of a decentralized, efficient, and user-friendly ZKVM proof protocol. We have achieved something remarkable: Boundless and its proof market are fully operational. More importantly, we have successfully resolved the short-term survival crisis faced by the organization. Now, thanks to the team's efforts, Boundless has become the first truly decentralized, permissionless protocol capable of handling any general ZKVM proof requests. The design and engineering work required behind this is immense and deserves our serious celebration.

On the road to the mainnet, we collaborated with dozens of protocols, testing and iterating various design prototypes, successfully attracting around 2,700 provers to join. So far, Boundless has generated over 20 billion proofs across 145 ZKVM programs and may have created the largest scale of ZKVM proof to date—over 100 billion proofs.

Boundless is a user-centric multi-sided market that is rapidly evolving into a vast ecosystem. The user base of the protocol is very diverse, covering:

· Provers: such as A41, ZAN, Cysic, Snarkify, Aoraki, Bitfufu

· Proof pools: such as InfStones, zkPool, Mintair

· Requesters: such as internal teams, Rollup projects, DeFi projects, etc.

· Rollup projects: such as Base, Citrea, BOB, Bitlayer, Linea, Katana, Taiko, OP Mainnet

· Channel partners: such as Alchemy, Conduit, zkSync Elastic Chain, Caldera, OP Superchain, Arbitrum, Polygon Ag Layer

· DeFi projects: such as Malda, EigenLayer, Lido

· L1 public chains: such as Hyli, Sei, Ripple, Stellar, Spacemesh, Cardano, Avalanche, Cartesi

· Cross-chain interoperability protocols: such as Wormhole, LayerZero, Across

We believe that Rollup, L1, and cross-chain protocols are the most promising sources of demand for the future, and we will focus our resources on stimulating growth in these areas.

Our Future Direction

We have completed the foundational work from 0 to 1. Next, Boundless will enter a new phase: the expansion from 1 to 10. In this phase, our focus will be on two core directions:

· Making Boundless the lowest-cost, highest-performance proof network, driven by the PoVW (Proof of Verifiable Work) mechanism;

· Fully leveraging our abundant and inexpensive computing resources, as well as our strong engineering capabilities, to introduce as much real proof demand as possible.

We will not pretend to have a universal strategic blueprint that guarantees success. While we have built infrastructure like Kailua that allows for quick access to new projects, we will continue to "do those things that cannot be scaled"—whether it’s Rollup, bridging protocols, or L1, as long as there is potential, we will do our utmost to promote access.

Current Priorities

With the rapid growth of the protocol, it is now time to "zoom out" and examine the fundamental elements that determine our long-term success from a broader time dimension and strategic perspective. Currently, our focus will be on further optimizing the market.

· Fixing market mechanisms: There is still significant room for growth in current market participation. Many provers have chosen between "participating in the market" and "turning to mining," with the latter becoming mainstream due to lower costs and simpler operations. This binary choice limits the market's vitality. Fixing this issue is the top priority for the Boundless engineering team.

Based on recent research and experience, we are confident that we can address market participation issues without adjusting the token economic model.

· Introducing real demand: Another key task is to introduce real proof demand. We need to win over customers and get them to genuinely start using Boundless. Currently, Citrea and Taiko are very close to going live, MegaETH has also begun testing, and at least 5-6 other protocols are actively pushing for access.

Our BD team will continue to focus on work at the "bottom of the conversion funnel," ensuring that these potential customers can smoothly complete the access process and truly become users of Boundless.

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