zk-SNARKs are popular for their validity and compression properties in the L2 rollup space, they have also become a popular tool in the bridging/interoperability space, the primary design termed colloquially as “zkBridges” in the canonical paper.

Recently at ETHDenver (one of the largest and most prestigious global web3 hackathons), members of the Mantle team managed to fight their way into the finals of the “infrastructure” track with a tongue-in-cheek submission named “Bitcoin Vitaliks Vision”.