Zytron L3 Upgrade Announcement
Enabling zkPrompt, zkInference, and DePin Mining for Trustless AI Systems
We're excited to announce the successful completion of a hard fork upgrade on Zytron Pioneer,Zypher Network’s dedicated Layer 3 rollup infrastructure designed for gasless and trustless AI agents operations and verifiable, zero-knowledge-powered applications.
Originally launched as one of the first gasless Layer 3 chains optimized for zk-proof verification, Zytron Pioneers has gone through several major iterations with strong support from the community—now serving over 1 million wallet addresses and processing tens of millions of transactions across a growing catalog of various applications and intelligent agent-based systems.
With this upgrade, Zytron enters a new phase of development, advancing its capabilities to support decentralized zk proof computation and trustless AI agent execution by integrating system-level optimizations and runtime support for modular zk protocols.
About Zytron AI Chain
Zytron is a high-performance, optimized OP-rollup purpose-built to overcome the performance bottlenecks and cost limitations typically associated with AI verification and zk proof validation on existing L2s (launch announcement). Feature highlights include:
● High Parallelism & High Throughput: By adopting a parallelized execution model and integrating native zk verification at the runtime layer, Zytron enables millisecond-level zk-proof validation, supporting high-frequency transaction volumes and multi-agent interactions that would otherwise saturate conventional L2s.
● Native Precompiled Contracts: With support for curves such as Ed-on-BN254 (e.g., BabyJubJub), Zytron dramatically reduces the on-chain cost of zk proof validation. Developers no longer need to manually implement elliptic curve logic in contracts, simplifying deployment of zk-enabled dApps.
● Developer Modularity: Zytron exposes a modular architecture allowing seamless integration of zk-based protocols such as zkPrompt and zkInference, while maintaining compatibility with agent frameworks and circuit pre-compiles. At the infrastructure layer, Zytron also integrates with the DePin Mining Network, enabling thousands of off-chain prover nodes to supply zk computation capacity.
For more technical documentation, visit wiki.zypher.network or explore the live environment at zytron.zypher.network.
What’s New in This Hard Fork?
This is a seamless (soft) hard fork, executed with no required user intervention.
All network links, asset addresses, and RPC configurations remain unchanged. Users only need to ensure that they have correctly imported the relevant assets if they haven't already.(documentation).
Technical Upgrades Include:
Addition of cryptographic precompiles (BabyJubJub, Poseidon, SHA256, zkSNARK pairing) for accelerated and gas-efficient proof verification.
Proof pipeline optimization, enabling batched proof verification in the runtime for lower block processing latency.
Storage system refactoring, reducing read/write overhead for high-volume zk applications (especially relevant for games and agent logs).
Call data compression and witness data optimization for zkPrompt and zkInference job submissions.
In addition to performance upgrades, three new zk protocols are now supported at the protocol level:
1. DePin Mining Protocol
Zytron now natively supports decentralized zk-proof generation through a distributed miner network. Prover nodes generate and submit proofs to Zytron's runtime, which verifies and stores them on-chain. This architecture offloads computational overhead from sequencers and distributes proof generation across a decentralized market, while preserving trust guarantees.
Proofs are submitted in standardized job formats, tagged by circuit ID and gate count
Rewards are issued in GEMS and $USDT, based on latency, volume, and quality-of-service
2. zkPrompt (Proof of Prompt) Protocol
Enables agents to generate cryptographic proofs that a system prompt was received and processed correctly, without being modified or exposed. Built on zkTLS and hash commitment schemes, this protects AI agent integrity in coordination tasks and prevents prompt tampering.
Prompts are committed on-chain; the agent proves it processed the original prompt
Supports encrypted prompt input and zero-leakage guarantees
Ideal for collaborative agent protocols and private prompt execution
3. zkInference (Proof of Inference) Protocol
Allows agents to prove correctness of AI model inference outputs through zero-knowledge circuits. Zytron verifies that inference results are consistent with a committed model architecture and inputs—without needing to re-execute the model.
Supports off-chain execution and on-chain verification
Compatible with zkVM stacks such as Succinct, Nexus and Risc Zero
Applicable to verifiable game logic, autonomous agents, financial bots, and privacy-preserving decision systems
What’s Coming Next?
Zypher will soon launch a dedicated AI Agent Mining Portal, enabling users to verify the behavior of zk-backed agents and accumulate GEMS, a network-wide points system designed to reward participation in verifiable computation.
Users interacting with zkPrompt/zkInference-enabled agents will earn GEMS
Miners contributing to proof generation will receive GEMS +
USD 0.00%↑ T incentives
GEMS will be redeemable across partner campaigns, NFT reward pools, and airdrop events hosted on Galxe and beyond
The latest updates to Zypher’s economic framework are available in ourEconomics Whitepaper,outlining a miner-user incentive model inspired by the Cobb-Douglas utility function, balancing zk workload generation and network value creation.
Zytron continues to evolve as a fully verifiable execution environment for decentralized AI, agentic computation, and high-frequency zk applications. With native support for zk protocols and a scalable proof marketplace, it enables a new class of trustless systems to operate entirely on-chain.
For more information, contact pr@zypher.network.