From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Optimizing zkEVM Provers by Leo Jeong | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

In this session, we introduce how we optimized zkEVM provers in production to significantly reduce prover costs, a major expense in running zkEVM. Topics include diagnosing zkEVM bottlenecks using CPU and memory profiling, leveraging DAGs for parallelization, and efficient memory management with a memory pool, fine-tuned garbage collection, and in-memory swapping for gigantic memory usage. These optimizations reduced zkEVM prover runtime by 75%, representing a substantial performance gain. Speaker(s): Leo Jeong Skill level: Intermediate Track: Applied Cryptography Keywords: Layer 2s, ZK-EVMs, Open Source Software, optimization Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/