Building the World’s Largest ZK Rollup with Mantle

Uma Roy

Uma Roy

— 3 min read
Building the World’s Largest ZK Rollup with Mantle

Mantle, a leading optimistic L2 with over $2.2B TVL, is partnering with Succinct to transform into a ZK rollup with SP1 and Succinct’s upcoming prover network. 

Mantle, a leading optimistic rollup with over $2.2B TVL, is transitioning to a ZK-rollup using Succinct’s market-leading zkEVM framework. This is a pivotal decision for Mantle’s future roadmap. The chain will rely on ZKPs to deliver institution-grade trust assumptions for its growing ecosystem of builders and users. Mantle’s commitment reveals a truth that the Succinct team has known for a long time: that ZK is the future for all rollups and that the technology is ready for prime time.

All rollups are destined to become ZK rollups—and Mantle, with over $2B in TVL and millions of users, is leading the charge. Soon they will be the largest ZK rollup with institutional-grade fast finality.

This jump is only possible with SP1 and OP Succinct, there is no alternative. No other zkEVM offers the same levels of customization, devex, and scalability to fit Mantle’s stringent requirements. We’re thrilled to support Mantle on their journey. With OP Succinct, Mantle unlocks:

  • Institutional grade fast finality—OP Succinct slashes finality times from 7 days to just 1 hour,  dramatically enhancing the usability of Mantle’s assets like mETH and fBTC across the crypto ecosystem. 
  • Full EVM equivalence—OP Succinct is a type-1 zkEVM, meaning all of your favorite applications on Mantle will work seamlessly on the ZK rollup version of Mantle, no changes required.
  • Customizable and maintanable—OP Succinct empowers developers to write their own custom state transition function (STF) in Rust, enabling Mantle to implement features like a custom gas token.

SP1 Enables the Future of Mantle

As a critical asset hub for one of the largest LSTs, mETH, Mantle has been pushing their OP Stack fork to the limits with advanced usability customizations such as enshrined account abstraction and a custom gas token. Their institutional and retail users demand excellent UX and fast finality, and they have it all—except for fast finality.

Mantle evaluated existing zkEVMs but found them lacking. While 7-day finality is challenging, the alternative of multi-hour finality posed even greater integration challenges for both rollup operators and third-party developers. Customization would have required writing custom circuits—a highly specialized and time-consuming task that would inevitably lead to ongoing maintenance nightmares. The lack of EVM equivalence further complicated matters, preventing developers from reusing existing smart contracts and tools. On top of that, the lengthy upgrade cycles of circuit-based zkEVMs made this approach unworkable. The arrival of SP1 changed everything, offering the breakthrough Mantle needed.

OP Succinct is a game-changer for Mantle, it combines the battle-hardened OP Stack with SP1 to create type-1 zkEVM with the best of all worlds: fast finality, ultra low costs, and an excellent developer experience that is fully future-proof. With every new generation of SP1, Mantle inherits new performance gains with only trivial updates on their side. If they want any customization, it only takes days instead of months, just write Rust, not esoteric circuits. 

OP Succinct fulfills all of Mantle’s requirements and more, with none of the downsides. 

Proving Costs are Trivial

The fast finality of OP Succinct carries no downsides. Proof generation costs are incredibly affordable today and continue to decline. Today, proving an ERC20 token transfer costs just fractions of a cent—a rounding error for users. On a per mgas (million gas units) basis, proving costs are only a few cents, a sharp contrast to existing zkEVMs where costs start in the tens of cents.

Transform Into The Future of Rollups Today

Want to experience the future of rollups today? Join Mantle and and others who have embraced 1 hour finality with limitless customizations. Reach out to use OP Succinct today with your existing OP Stack rollup or launching a brand new chain..

OP Succinct is powered by SP1, our turbocharged zkVM. SP1 is used by the most renowned teams in the industry, including Celestia, Avail, Lido, Polygon, AggLayer and many more.

†For clarity reasons and to speak in the vernacular we refer to Mantle as a rollup, however since they use EigenDA rather than 4844, the more precise terminology would be a Validium.

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