Alex Gluchowski, co-founder of Matter Labs, says Airbender was initiated a year ago to meet Ethereum’s future scalability demands, emphasizing faster finality, lower app costs and decentralized proving without relying on large GPU farms

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Faster proofs unlock faster finality, cheaper apps, and crucially, proofs that can be generated anywhere, not just in massive GPU farms.

We started building ZKsync Airbender over a year ago because we saw where Ethereum needed to go, and what ZK apps would eventually demand,” said Gluchowski