On October 11th, Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon Labs, proposed a new idea (AIP Idea) on the ApeCoin DAO forum, aiming to promote the collaboration between the ApeCoin community and Polygon Labs to build a dedicated L2 "ApeChain" based on zero-knowledge technology. According to Sandeep Nailwal's proposal, ApeCoin will be developed using Polygon CDK, with a focus on usability and modularity, as well as improving security, reducing costs, high customizability, instant withdrawals, and shared liquidity.

Astar Network, a smart contract platform for Polkadot's ecosystem, has released an article revealing progress in building the Astar zkEVM environment. Currently, the zkEVM temporary storage environment and Sepolia temporary storage bridge have been completed. The cross-chain bridge user interface is under development, and the Astar zkEVM test network is about to be launched. Pre-registration is now open.

October 10th, decentralized ZK-RaaS platform Opside announced its brand upgrade to Lumoz, and started a new journey of ZK-RaaS & Decentralized Prover Network. The project's new official website has been updated to lumoz.org. Through its non-coding ZK-Rollup Launchbase, any user can generate customized zkEVM application chains without code. Currently supported zkEVM types include Polygon zkEVM and zkSync, and Scroll and StarkNet are expected to be supported in Q4. At the same time, Lumoz provides underlying computing power for general ZKP calculations through the Decentralized Prover Network. 

Manta Network's Odyssey second week Social Week event is now live on Galxe, where participants can earn points and rewards. At the same time, the first week's Bridge Week cross-chain event is still available for participation and point collection. Participating projects in Odyssey's Social Week include Galxe, Manta Network NPO, POMP, AsMatch, Dmail, MoonFit, Metale, OmniSea, and TaskOn.

On October 7th, Mina Navigators, the ZK developer, will receive a grant of 6 million MINA (approximately $2.3 million) in support of the lightweight blockchain protocol Mina Protocol. More details will be disclosed next Monday.

September 27th, the Snapshot voting page showed that the Aave community has voted in favor of the ARFC proposal "deploying Aave V3 to Polygon zkEVM", which suggests deploying a minimum viable product (MVP) version of Aave V3 on the Polygon zkEVM network to promote Aave's diversity on L2 and expand its influence in the DeFi field. The proposal plans to deploy Aave V3.0.1 on Polygon zkEVM, which includes three collateral types (WETH, WMATIC, and USDC) and one borrowable asset (USDC). 

EthStorage has released the zkGo compiler in partnership with Hyper Oracle and Delphinus Lab. According to reports, zkGo is based on the latest version of Go 1.21.0 and is the first compiler to compile regular Go code into Wasm code compatible with the ZK protocol. The generated Wasm code can be zero-knowledge proofed and on-chain verified by Delphinus Lab's zkWasm tool.

According to an official announcement, Binance has now completed the integration of Maverick Protocol (MAV) on the zkSync Era network and has opened up deposit and withdrawal services for the token on the aforementioned network.

June 29 (Cointime) -O(1) Labs, the development team behind the lightweight blockchain protocol Mina, submitted a proposal to Optimism (now renamed as OP Mainnet) suggesting the application of their zero-knowledge proof technology based on MIPS zkVM to OP Stack fraud proof. The MIPS functionality, in addition to local high-performance snarkyJS, allows for the development of applications using a universal language.

Zero-knowledge (ZK) technology is rapidly improving. As it advances, more ZK applications will emerge, driving higher demand for zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation.