Wormhole announces ZK roadmap: ZK light client supporting multiple blockchains will be deployed soon

According to official news, Wormhole announced the ZK roadmap, the main contents of which are as follows: Introducing cryptography expertise: The Wormhole Foundation has awarded contributor grants to four new engineering teams specializing in zero-knowledge cryptography and will make these announcements in the coming weeks; Unlock hardware resources: Wormhole contributors will work with strategic hardware providers to accelerate the implementation of light clients and procure hardware accelerators for Wormhole contributors as the number of ZK-enabled channels and ZK verification messages continues to expand; Upcoming light clients: Light clients allow users and applications to quickly and efficiently verify the state of the blockchain network (e.g. current account balances, smart contract data, etc.). Running light clients (as smart contracts) directly on-chain is still not feasible on many blockchains due to high verification costs, but concise, verifiable computations are possible. This allows expensive light client verification to be performed off-chain, and the correctness of light client executions to be verified on-chain at much lower cost. Over the next few months, ZK light clients for blockchains including Ethereum, Sui, Aptos, Near, and Cosmos will be deployed and integrated with Wormhole, enabling trustless two-way data transfer.