The Bitcoin ecosystem is making another hardcore technical breakthrough. The BABE protocol has significantly optimized the verification cost of Groth16 proofs, directly cutting 99.9% of the overhead, which is quite meaningful for the popularization of on-chain zero-knowledge proof applications.

Where is the core improvement? This solution greatly lowers the threshold for zero-knowledge proofs to operate on the Bitcoin network. Whether it’s privacy transaction computation or cross-chain interoperability, they can be implemented on the BTC chain at a lower cost. Imagine, the complex privacy applications that were previously limited by high costs now have the opportunity to truly go on-chain and land.

From an ecosystem perspective, this cost structure optimization opens up many possibilities for Bitcoin’s application layer. Deploying ZK toolchains on the mainnet will be easier, and developers no longer have to be stuck due to high verification costs.