Zero-knowledge tokens

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# Coins Live Price Market cap 24h
1 Zcash ZEC $1,179.80
$19.96B
$19.96 billion
+1.77%
2 Chainlink LINK $12.75
$9.54B
$9.54 billion
-0.01%
3 NEAR Protocol NEAR $2.37
$3.10B
$3.10 billion
+3.07%
4 Worldcoin WLD $0.480
$1.74B
$1.74 billion
+4.23%
5 Lighter LIT $4.88
$1.54B
$1.54 billion
+6.45%
6 Polygon (ex-MATIC) POL $0.0971
$1.04B
$1.04 billion
+1.63%
7 Midnight NIGHT $0.0229
$380.35M
$380.35 million
-0.31%
8 Immutable IMX $0.133
$266.99M
$266.99 million
+0.41%
9 StarkNet Token STRK $0.0309
$221.70M
$221.70 million
+0.67%
10 Humanity H $0.0794
$154.44M
$154.44 million
+3.96%
11 Horizen ZEN $7.14
$130.88M
$130.88 million
+0.78%
12 zkSync ZK $0.0106
$109.95M
$109.95 million
+0.41%
13 Mina Protocol Token MINA $0.0834
$107.86M
$107.86 million
+2.51%
14 dYdX Token DYDX $0.123
$103.65M
$103.65 million
-0.24%
15 Nock NOCK $0.0370
$85.43M
$85.43 million
+17.24%
16 Orochi Network Token ON $0.191
$69.94M
$69.94 million
+9.15%
17 LINEA LINEA $0.00271
$66.53M
$66.53 million
-0.16%
18 Succinct PROVE $0.196
$55.44M
$55.44 million
+5.87%
19 Celo CELO $0.0781
$47.40M
$47.40 million
-0.77%
20 AltLayer Token ALT $0.00662
$47.20M
$47.20 million
+1.45%
21 Pirate Chain ARRR $0.238
$46.68M
$46.68 million
-13.22%
22 AZTEC AZTEC $0.0148
$44.07M
$44.07 million
+8.45%
23 Space and Time SXT $0.00895
$42.68M
$42.68 million
+0.54%
24 Newton NEWT $0.0448
$40.29M
$40.29 million
+2.06%
25 Dusk DUSK $0.0779
$38.94M
$38.94 million
-0.87%
26 Movement MOVE $0.00900
$38.92M
$38.92 million
+0.37%
27 Railgun RAIL $2.29
$35.99M
$35.99 million
+1.28%
28 Cysic CYS $0.178
$35.43M
$35.43 million
-14.49%
29 BSquared Token B2 $0.411
$34.12M
$34.12 million
-1.64%
30 Boundless ZKC $0.0489
$32.57M
$32.57 million
-0.28%
31 Aligned Token ALIGN $0.00798
$30.97M
$30.97 million
-2.05%
32 Metis Token METIS $3.10
$30.95M
$30.95 million
-0.07%
33 Anoma XAN $0.0124
$30.88M
$30.88 million
-34.32%
34 Manta MANTA $0.0613
$29.43M
$29.43 million
-1.29%
35 Swarm Network TRUTH $0.0126
$26.31M
$26.31 million
+2.24%
36 Lagrange LA $0.0628
$25.94M
$25.94 million
-3.76%
37 Phala Network PHA $0.0257
$25.74M
$25.74 million
-2.53%
38 GRVT GRVT $0.169
$25.07M
$25.07 million
+2.93%
39 ZEROBASE ZBT $0.0857
$24.74M
$24.74 million
+0.73%
40 ALEO ALEO $0.0172
$24.16M
$24.16 million
+0.94%
41 IKA Token IKA $0.00207
$20.60M
$20.60 million
-0.48%
42 Brevis Token BREV $0.0786
$19.66M
$19.66 million
+0.28%
43 HANA HANA $0.0191
$18.88M
$18.88 million
+0.20%
44 Celer Network CELR $0.00225
$17.72M
$17.72 million
-0.01%
45 Taiko Token TAIKO $0.0831
$17.05M
$17.05 million
+0.11%
46 zkPass ZKP $0.0483
$14.22M
$14.22 million
-1.73%
47 Hippo Protocol HP $0.00800
$11.57M
$11.57 million
+3.46%
48 Loopring LRC $0.00838
$11.46M
$11.46 million
-0.19%
49 Marlin POND POND $0.000875
$8.75M
$8.75 million
+0.41%
50 Telos TLOS $0.0171
$7.73M
$7.73 million
-7.13%
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Top Gainers
Coins Live Price Market cap 24h
Nock NOCK $0.0370
$85.43M
$85.43 million
+17.24%
Orochi Network Token ON $0.191
$69.94M
$69.94 million
+9.15%
AZTEC AZTEC $0.0148
$44.07M
$44.07 million
+8.45%
Lighter LIT $4.88
$1.54B
$1.54 billion
+6.45%
Succinct PROVE $0.196
$55.44M
$55.44 million
+5.87%
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What Are Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Tokens?

ZK tokens are crypto assets that power blockchains, rollups, or privacy-centric protocols built around zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) cryptography. They secure networks, pay fees, reward provers, and/or govern protocols that allow data to be verified without revealing the data itself—unlocking scalable, private, and compliant DeFi, identity, and payment rails.

Quick Facts

  • Core tech: ZK-proofs bundle thousands of transactions into one succinct proof, cutting L1 gas 90-99 %.
  • Privacy: Sender, receiver, amount, or smart-contract inputs can stay encrypted while still being verifiable.
  • Security: Withdrawals inherit Ethereum (or base-layer) finality without extra trust assumptions.
  • Compliance-ready: Selective disclosure lets users reveal data to auditors while staying private on-chain.
  • Sector stage: Moving from “proof-of-concept” to production-grade zk-VMs, shared provers, and zk-co-processors.

Projects & Tokens You Should Know

Token Chain / L2 PQ Tech & Use-Case
MINA Mina Protocol Recursive zk-SNARKs; 22 kB fixed chain size; zkApps for private smart contracts.
LRC Loopring zk-Rollup DEX; off-chain order-book matching; fees & governance settled in LRC.
IMX Immutable zk-EVM StarkEx-based NFT & gaming rollup; IMX pays gas and staking rewards.
POL (ex-MATIC) Polygon zkEVM POL will secure Polygon’s zk-rollups via restaking and fee burn.
ZK zkSync Era Native token for fees, sequencer gas, governance, and boomerang airdrops.
DUSK Dusk Network PLONK-based confidential smart contracts; targets compliant on-chain securities.
AZERO Aleph Zero DAG + custom ZK privacy layer; enterprise DeFi and data-sharing use-cases.
EGLD MultiversX zk-SNARKs inside sharded architecture; private transfers and SGX-style secrecy.

Benefits

  • Scalability: 2 k–20 k TPS per rollup; 90-99 % cheaper than L1.
  • Privacy: Shield pools (Aztec), private DEXs, dark pools, and on-chain KYC without data leaks.
  • Compliance: Regulators see proof of solvency, transaction logs, or user accreditation without raw data exposure.
  • Developer UX: Same Solidity/Vyper code deploys to zk-EVMs; only prover layer changes.

Risks & Trade-offs

  • Prover overhead: Generating proofs is compute-heavy; fees spike during congestion.
  • Early tech: Some zk-VMs still in alpha; circuit bugs or soundness flaws possible.
  • Centralised sequencers: Many rollups run single sequencers—censorship & MEV risks until shared sequencing.
  • Token dilution: Fast prover subsidies or airdrop farms can pressure price short-term.
  • Cryptographic migration: If NIST later breaks a chosen scheme, hard-fork upgrades required.

How to Evaluate ZK Tokens

  1. Prover economics – who pays prover fees? Is there a fee-burn or rebate loop?
  2. Decentralisation roadmap – timeline for shared sequencer, permissionless provers, and fault proofs.
  3. Circuit audits – look for reports from Trail of Bits, Zellic, ABDK, or internal audits.
  4. Proof system – SNARK (Groth16, Plonk, STARK) vs. STARK (post-quantum friendly, bigger proofs).
  5. Data availability – on-chain calldata, blobs, or off-chain (validium) impacts security/cost.
  6. Network effects – TVL, DEX depth, wallet support, fiat on-ramps.

Future Outlook

Expect shared prover markets (= proof-as-a-service), zk-co-processors for Ethereum (Lagrange, Herodotus), and privacy layers that plug into any EVM chain. ZK tokens will evolve from pure “L2 gas” into restaking collateral, prover payment rails, and privacy middleware fees—but only chains that decentralise sequencers and keep prover costs low will win long-term.

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