In 2020, the killer app was DeFi. In 2021, it was NFTs. In 2022, rollups. Now? It’s infrastructure that makes all of them composable, provable, and creator-aligned. This is the rise of the invisible infrastructure layer, the tooling beneath the surface powering ZK, AI, intents, appchains, and compute. Here are 6 of the most important protocols building that foundation: 1. @SuccinctLabs ZK as Easy as Code Want to prove your code works without rewriting it into cryptographic circuits? Succinct is building SP1, a zkVM that lets you write normal Rust or C++ and generate ZKPs from it. Then comes the magic: proofs are executed by a decentralized Prover Network, where participants bid to generate proofs fast and cheap…. paid in $PROVE. Succinct turns ZK into infrastructure you don’t even notice, proof without plumbing. Perfect for: - zkBridges - Light clients - AI verification - Rollups Anything that needs “provable compute” ZK moves from the lab → to app-native scale. 2. @Mira_Network Verifying AI Like It’s Math ChatGPT can generate answers, but how do we know it’s right? Mira makes AI provable and trust-minimized. Each AI output is: - Broken into atomic claims - Verified independently by staked “fact checkers” - Protected with privacy-preserving cryptography - Certified on-chain It’s zero-knowledge meets zero hallucination. Imagine: Verified agent responses in DeFi Secure medical LLMs Credible game-world NPCs Auditable decision engines Mira builds a trust layer for AI, so you don’t just use it, you can believe it. 3. @cysic_xyz ZK Proofs as a Decentralized Commodity Everyone wants ZKPs. No one wants to generate them. Cysic fixes that with Proof-of-Compute. A decentralized prover network of GPUs & ASICs Tasks from any ZK project Provers earn $CYS + computing governance tokens ($CGT) Staking + slashing + finality ensures trust Think: an open marketplace for zero-knowledge horsepower. ZK now scales like cloud compute. From light clients to rollups, Cysic makes provable logic cost-efficient, accessible, and credibly decentralized. 4. @Calderaxyz Rollups as a Product, Not a Protocol Launching a chain shouldn’t take 6 months. Caldera is the AWS of rollups, spinning up high-performance appchains with a few clicks. It stitches together: Celestia (for Data Availability) Espresso (for decentralized sequencing) RISC Zero (for native proving) EVM or custom VMs So DAOs, dApps, and protocols can go from 0→1 with production-grade infra. No custom infra. No devops nightmares. Just fast, modular rollups, deployed like Shopify stores. 5. @campnetworkxyz The Native IP Layer of Web3 AI needs data. Creators need provenance. Camp is an L1 for programmable IP. Think: every piece of content gets a cryptographic ID, legal metadata, and embedded rights logic. Apps can: Register IP Let agents license/train on it Pay creators based on usage Prove origin and authorship If Caldera is the AWS of rollups, Camp is the Ethereum of culture. It makes IP programmable, and lets creators opt into revenue models instead of being extracted. 6. @anoma Where Intents Replace Transactions Blockchains don’t understand what users want. Anoma does. Anoma doesn’t just process transactions. It interprets intents — what the user is trying to achieve. Want to swap ETH → stETH → vote in a DAO? Just say it. Want to mint an NFT only if your AI agent gets verified? Just declare it. Need to interact across 4 rollups, but don’t know how to route it? Let Anoma figure it out. Anoma turns UX from clickfest to constraint-resolved logic. Intent-based execution is the future of smooth coordination. This are my 6 top projects for now, would definitely drop another episode in the nearest future. That’s a wrap!