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Lagrange builds two core products: a decentralized ZK Prover Network and a ZK Coprocessor.

Lagrange’s decentralized ZK Prover Network powers proof generation for ZK rollups. Lagrange launched the first production-ready ZK prover network in the industry, operated by top operators including Coinbase Cloud, Kraken, OKX and more. Lagrange’s ZK Prover Network is also expanding to address key challenges faced by rollups and to advance ZK adoption and utility. Decentralized proving enables the rollup ecosystem to operate with higher liveness guarantees, more security and lower cost. Lagrange works with top rollup ecosystems including ZKsync, Polygon, Linea, AltLayer and Caldera. We anticipate achieving a run rate of over 8-figures in protocol revenue over the next year. Lagrange also develops an SQL-based ZK Coprocessor, an infrastructure that enables DeFi protocols to verifiably compute over historical onchain storage, receipt and transaction state. Rather than being constrained by gas limits, smart contracts can directly request proofs of complex data-heavy computations and then verify the results asynchronously back onchain. Examples of use cases built with Lagrange’s ZK Coprocessor include, complex liquidity-mining incentive program, volume-based trading discounts on DEXs and funding rate calculations for options or perps protocols.

In both of these products, the LA token is staked into the Lagrange Prover Network to determine the eligibility of provers to generate proofs. Provers within the network independently bid in an auction to produce proofs within a specified timeframe and stake LA tokens as collateral to guarantee liveness. If a Prover fails to deliver a proof on time, they face penalties such as slashing or non-payment, incentivizing them to meet their commitments and ensuring the network’s reliability.

Therefore, each Prover maintains an incentive to behave honestly and faces penalties if it behaves maliciously or fails to guarantee liveness. The fees associated with the generation of those proofs accrue back to Provers and LA token stakers. Therefore, as more proofs are generated on the network, the rewards for staking LA increase.

Additionally, the LA token will be used for governance of Lagrange’s Prover Network. Changes in protocol fees and treasury management will be determined by voting of the LA token in a DAO.

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Lagrange’s ZK Prover Network and ZK Coprocessor will be on mainnet prior to Day 1 of the listing. They are currently in an advanced testnet that supports major customers including, ZKsync, Polygon, Caldera, LayerZero, Ether.Fi, Frax and Azuki.

Our network is currently operated by top institutional operators including Coinbase Cloud, Kraken, OKX, Nethermind and P2P.

The LA token is staked into the Lagrange Prover Network to determine the eligibility of provers to generate proofs. Provers within the network independently bid in an auction to produce proofs within a specified timeframe and stake LA tokens as collateral to guarantee liveness. If a Prover fails to deliver a proof on time, they face penalties such as slashing or non-payment, incentivizing them to meet their commitments and ensuring the network’s reliability.

Therefore, each Prover maintains an incentive to behave honestly and faces penalties if it behaves maliciously or fails to guarantee liveness. The fees associated with the generation of those proofs accrue back to Provers and LA token stakers. Therefore, as more proofs are generated on the network, the rewards for staking LA increase.

The LA token can be staked into Provers on Lagrange’s Prover Network to earn additional fees and emissions as proofs are generated on the network. The Lagrange Prover Network generates proofs for large protocols including ZKsync, Polygon, LayerZero, 1Inch, Azuki, Caldera, AltLayer and EigenLayer, so we expect the amount of fees that accrue to the LA token to be large. We anticipate that Lagrange’s ZK Prover Network will have revenue exceeding over 8-figures annually.

Lagrange community currently has over 100,000 members and our ZK Coprocessor product has been used by over 20,000 unique wallets. Our prover network currently has over 45,000 stakers that have restaked ETH into it on EigenLayer. Given that we are the primary proof generation partner for the ZKsync ecosystem, we also may engage in a distribution involving their 2.3 million unique wallets.