Mainnet Beta Week 1 Recap

Overview

Key Achievements

• The world’s first full consensus proofs
Boundless became the first network to prove Ethereum consensus in full, consistently delivering 50-billion cycle proofs. This was also a record for boundless’s total cycle count for a single proof, being a magnitude greater than the recent record.

• 10× Network Scale‑Up
Order volume and cycle throughput grew tenfold with no cascading failures, hitting a peak of 2.6T daily cycles, 8k orders across 576 provers! We plan to increase load another 10×+ before Mainnet Beta concludes.

• Potential outcome of ZK incentives
Most proof requests cleared at zero cost because as capacity still outpaces demand with an additional incentive, the market currently prices requests under that of the perceived additional incentive. An early glimpse of how an open two-sided market combined with incentives may impact mainnet orders.

• Open market innovation reducing auction times
Despite on‑chain auctions, several provers locked orders within the same L2 block (<100 ms end‑to‑end) by trusting high‑reputation requestors and skipping pre‑flight steps. This open‑market optimization is exactly what Boundless is designed to encourage and shows that the on-chain auction can add minimal latency.

Patches & Ongoing Work

• Infrastructure Throughput
The explorer and order generators initially lagged under the higher load. We have already scaled these components and continue tuning them so requests surface faster in the explorer.

• Signal‑Proof Accessibility
External provers found large “Signal” proofs challenging with the current node release. A new proving‑node build is in testing that makes it easier to
• prioritize large requests
• block specific requestor addresses
• follow a published minimum broker configuration for landing these proofs that increases the chances but not guarantees these proofs are generated

Looking Ahead