From Accelerating ZKP to Leveraging EIP4844

2025 Tokamak Network(TON) Bi-Weekly Report #1 : 1/22 ~ 2/4

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The analysis, conducted by Tokamak Network researchers, focuses on identifying computational efficiency and data gas savings across the ZK protocol: parallelized MSM operations, faster proof generation from GPU utilization, and strategies to significantly lower data processing costs with blob transactions after the introduction of EIP-4844. This research will ultimately lead to enabling technologies that will help users process transactions faster and with lower fees, directly and indirectly benefiting the Tokamak Network ecosystem as well as users of various L2 and ZK solutions. For more details, please visit [link].

Ecosystem

1.1. Staking Update

As of February 4th, 2025, the total amount of staked TON has reached 22,197,485.7 TON. By staking with Tokamak Network, you contribute to this growing total and enjoy several benefits:

1. Approximately 33% APY

2. Various benefits such as airdrops

3. The rights to participate in Tokamak Network DAO’s operations and decision-making process

1.2. Transaction

In the past two weeks, Tokamak Network has recorded 564 TON transactions and 672 WTON transactions.

1.3. Market Cap

Tokamak Network recorded a market capitalization of $72.42M with a total issuance of 90,602,705, TON on February 4th. Over the past two weeks, TON token price changed from a high of $2.07 to a low of $1.28, and the total trading volume was $5.36M. For the latest information about total supply and price, please click on Price Dashboard.

Currently, users can supply liquidity and trade TON on Upbit, Bithumb, Upbit Indonesia, Uniswap, Poloniex, Coinone, DigiFinex and XT.com(Newly listed).

Technology Development

2.1. Tech Development

Tokamak Network is an On-demand Layer 2 Platform and strives to provide various Layer 2 protocols to its users.

• There have been 299 commits in 21 repositories in the Tokamak Network GitHub during the past two weeks. Users can check the category and types of each commit in the following chart. The number of commitments by detailed theme is as follows, and detailed development progress can be found in Tokamak Network GitHub.

2.2 Project SYB (Overview)

• The transaction processing circuit has been completed

2.3 Project Ooo (Overview)

• The demo version of the Tokamak zk-EVM frontend is now available! Read the easy-to-follow instructions. You can convert transactions to ZKP circuits. Just enter your transaction hash. The demo version only supports TON contract transactions.

2.4. Project ECO (Overview)

• To launch the new version of Simple Staking, the team is currently focusing on a contract audit and internal testing of the front-end. Once the internal tests are complete, Simple Staking V2.5 will be available on Sepolia

2.5. Project Opal (Overview)

• GemSTON: Completed TON staking case study, bug fixes, and Gem background color feature.
• Storyline & Design: Completed Korean version of the storyline and character designs.
• STON Development: Finalized project scope; completed ERC721 & ERC1155 integration and deployment scripts; Performed a complete test suite for both ERC721 and ERC1155
• Developer Tools: Built STON CLI and completed STON protocol infographics.

2.6. Project TRH (Overview)

• Thanos mainnet beta release will be done soon. TRH website rebranding is going on and deployment SDK specification design is completed. Team is also focusing on integrating staking v2.5 with Thanos for operator registration and scope of optimizing the current Thanos stack.

2.7. Project DRB (Overview)

• Manuscript about VDF verification optimization is updated to v5 [ArXiv]

Community

3.1. Ethereum and Layer 2 market

The Layer 2 market cap is currently $ 12.29B, after an increase of 0.75% in the last 24 hours. Representing 0.38% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. The Layer 2 sector saw $ 1.66B in trading volume over the last day.

3.2. Meet the new people joining the Tokamak network

Intizar Tashov

Hello, I’m Intizar, a Blockchain Software Engineer at Tokamak Network, contributing to the development of the SYB(Sybil-resistance) project. With expertise in blockchain, cloud computing, and scalable backend systems, I focus on designing efficient architectures and optimizing performance. Passionate about decentralized technologies, I enjoy solving complex problems and driving innovation in Web3. Excited for the journey ahead with the Tokamak team!

3.3. FAQ

These are some of the FAQs from the community. Please check the section below.

• How to contribute to Tokamak Network?

1. Grant program: create your own project and apply for GranTON
2. Full time: apply for a full-time position and earn salary in USDT/USDC in addition to the TON grant from the project.
3. Part time: apply for a part-time by earning TON as a grant from project. Please contact the project leader (owner) directly and discuss with them.

• How can I contact you if I would like to collaborate with the Tokamak Network team? Thank you for your interest in collaborating with the Tokamak Network team. We are open to various forms of collaboration that foster Tokamak Network ecosystem growth and value. To discuss a potential collaboration, please send a brief description of your proposal to hello@tokamak.network, and we will review it and respond as soon as possible.

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