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Cysic open\u2011sources its Venus zkVM engine, recasting proof generation as a global computation graph and positioning ZisK inside Ethereum\u2019s emerging EIP\u20118025 proof market.<\/p>\n
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Cysic has released Venus, a new open\u2011source zkVM compute engine that restructures proof generation around a global computation graph rather than a traditional hardware abstraction layer, positioning the company\u2019s ZisK stack squarely inside Ethereum\u2019s emerging L1 proof\u2011market debate. Announcing the move on X, Cysic described Venus as \u201cbuilt on top of ZisK\u201d and said the system \u201cabandons the traditional HAL model\u201d in favor of a graph\u2011based representation of the entire proof pipeline. \u201cThis paradigm shift yields three core advantages: global compute optimization, reduced ineffective data movement, and markedly improved GPU utilization,\u201d the team wrote.<\/p>\n
Instead of treating hardware backends as a sequence of isolated function calls, Venus encodes zero\u2011knowledge proof generation as an explicit computation graph that can be scheduled end\u2011to\u2011end across GPUs, FPGAs and future ASICs. Cysic says this allows the compiler to \u201creorder instructions and fuse memory operations across kernel boundaries,\u201d cutting down on memory thrash between CPU and accelerator and better matching the massively parallel character of MSM and NTT operations. In internal tests, the Venus engine delivered \u201cover 9% end\u2011to\u2011end proof\u2011time improvement compared to ZisK 0.16.1,\u201d primarily by trimming CPU\u2011GPU synchronization overhead rather than relying on raw hardware gains.<\/p>\n
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The Venus announcement lands as Ethereum\u2019s EIP\u20118025 proposal, dubbed \u201cOptional Execution Proofs,\u201d formalizes a multi\u2011prover model for L1 block validation using zkVMs. In its explainer, Cysic notes that ZisK is \u201cone of the five zkVMs explicitly named as candidates in official community discussions,\u201d alongside systems such as RISC Zero and openVM, and says the team can already \u201ccomplete proof generation for an Ethereum block in 7.4 seconds using 24 GPUs,\u201d meeting real\u2011time targets. The project is \u201calready live on Ethproofs, submitting real\u2011time proofs for Ethereum blocks using a single RTX 4090,\u201d and is listed as an Ethproofs integration partner as the ecosystem moves toward an L1 proof market.eips.<\/p>\n
Cysic frames Venus as the software acceleration core inside a larger stack that includes the ZisK zkVM at the protocol entry point, custom ASIC hardware as the computational base and a ComputeFi network for scheduling jobs across provers. \u201cThe real problem is not insufficient raw compute but a fundamental architectural mismatch,\u201d the team argues, contending that a tightly integrated zkVM, hardware and scheduling stack is needed to hyperscale Ethereum\u2019s planned zkEVM roadmap.university.<\/p>\n
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