Succinct has successfully optimized its real-time zero-knowledge (ZK) verification for Ethereum L1 blocks, achieving significant miniaturization and cost reduction. Utilizing just 16 NVIDIA 5090 GPUs, the company can now perform real-time ZK proofs for Ethereum L1 blocks, reducing the cost to a few thousand dollars. This advancement lowers the barrier to entry, potentially increasing the number of participants and enhancing the network's decentralization and security. The Ethereum Foundation, which supports the development of ZK technology, aims to achieve "horizontal scaling" with this approach. According to researcher Justin Drake, this could boost Ethereum's transaction processing speed to 10,000 TPS, enabling high-throughput applications to run effectively on L1.