Announcing Our Partnership with Horizen – Part 1: Technical Synergy

Oraclizer Core

May 08, 2025

Beginning a New Era of Technical Collaboration

We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Horizen. This collaboration aims to deliver innovative solutions to the blockchain ecosystem by combining the core technologies of both companies. In particular, the integration of Horizen’s zkVerify technology with Oraclizer’s state synchronization protocol promises to significantly enhance regulatory compliance and efficiency in decentralized finance and Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization.

TL;DR

• Oraclizer and Horizen have formed a strategic partnership combining complete state synchronization with zero-knowledge proof verification.

• Horizen’s zkVerify technology integrated into Oraclizer’s Oracle State Machine reduces proof verification costs by up to 90% and improves state synchronization throughput by 10x.

• This partnership addresses both regulatory compliance and scalability challenges, establishing the technical foundation essential for bringing the $30+ trillion RWA market on-chain.

Technical Synergy: Combining zkVerify and Oracle State Machine

Horizen, a leader in zero-knowledge cryptography, has significantly improved blockchain efficiency through zkVerify. Notably, Horizen’s recent decision to transition to the Base L2 ecosystem aligns with Oraclizer’s strategic direction.

Oraclizer’s strategic shift from our initially proposed Polygon zkEVM architecture to an L3 solution built on Base L2 has strengthened our partnership with Horizen. This transition leverages the scalability, institutional-grade infrastructure, and liquidity of the Base ecosystem while maintaining our core vision and technical approach.

zkVerify: Revolutionizing Proof Verification

Developed by Horizen Labs, zkVerify is a modular blockchain optimized for zero-knowledge proof verification, dramatically reducing verification costs without compromising network performance. Designed for seamless integration with various blockchain environments, zkVerify provides a developer-friendly ecosystem for efficient proof verification.

“The zkVerify platform is not just about reducing costs—it’s about enabling innovation and scalability in a way that wasn’t possible before. By offloading proof verification, we allow developers to optimize settlement through a modular approach, unlocking more resources and value for both developers and users.”Rob Viglione, Co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs

zkVerify’s technology demonstrates significant synergy when combined with Oraclizer’s state synchronization solution.

Oracle State Machine: Realizing Complete State Synchronization

Oraclizer’s core technology, the Oracle State Machine, is the first regulatory-compliant oracle that fully synchronizes states between on-chain and off-chain systems. However, one of the core challenges of a complete state synchronization oracle is economically processing continuous state updates.

Optimizing verification costs is essential for efficiently synchronizing consecutive state changes after the initial oracle call, and this is where integration with zkVerify becomes critically important.

Performance Enhancements Through Integration

By applying zkVerify’s modular ZK verification network to process Oraclizer’s state transition proofs, we can dramatically reduce state synchronization costs, making practical implementation possible for large-scale financial applications.

According to our performance tests, this integration is expected to improve key performance metrics as follows:

Performance Metric	Oraclizer	Oraclizer + zkVerify	Improvement
ZK Proof Verification Cost	Baseline	-40%	40%
State Transition Throughput	100/sec	1,000+/sec	10x
Regulatory Verification Latency	5-10 sec	1-2 sec	75%
State Changes per Single Call	10	100+	10x

Table 1: Performance metrics comparison between standalone Oraclizer and integration with zkVerify

These technical improvements simultaneously address regulatory compliance and cost barriers that institutional investors face when participating in on-chain finance. They facilitate smoother capital movement between traditional finance and DeFi, establishing the technical foundation for bringing the $30+ trillion RWA market on-chain.

Base L2 Integration Architecture Efficiency

The strategic shift of both Oraclizer and Horizen to the Base L2 ecosystem further strengthens the synergy between the two projects. By sharing Base’s scalability and Coinbase’s institutional infrastructure, both can provide complementary L3 solutions.

Within the Base L2 ecosystem, Oraclizer and Horizen can utilize the OP Stack messaging system for efficient communication between L3s. This integration offers several key advantages compared to using Oraclizer on other blockchains:

Minimized Transaction Latency: Communication between L3s built on the same L2 provides significantly lower latency than cross-chain messaging, which is essential for near real-time state synchronization.
Unified Security Model: By sharing Base L2’s security model, secure state synchronization is possible without complex cross-chain security mechanisms.
Gas Cost Efficiency: Communication between L3s within the same L2 offers substantially lower gas costs than bridging between external chains.
Development Convenience: Horizen and Oraclizer developers can utilize the same Base infrastructure and tooling, simplifying integrated application development.

Integration Mechanism

The Base L3 integration between Oraclizer and Horizen is implemented through the following key mechanisms:

Shared zkVerify System: Both projects utilize the same zkVerify verification network, enabling state verification through a common attestation framework. This ensures consistency and trustworthiness of cross-L3 states.
OP Stack Messaging: Base’s OP Stack provides a direct message channel between L3s. This enables state synchronization requests and responses between Horizen dApps and Oraclizer with minimal delay.
Direct State Access: L3s within the same L2 share a data availability layer, allowing direct access to state data. This dramatically optimizes the state synchronization process.

Through these integration mechanisms, integration between Horizen dApps and Oraclizer can achieve up to 75% lower latency and 80% reduced integration costs compared to other chains.

Mutual Ecosystem Expansion Synergy

The Base L3 integration between Oraclizer and Horizen provides direct benefits to both ecosystems:

Accelerated Growth of Horizen’s dApp Ecosystem

• Oraclizer’s state synchronization technology provides vital off-chain data and state synchronization infrastructure to dApps built on the Horizen mainnet.

• Development of regulatory-compliant dApps becomes easier, increasing practical use cases and traffic for the Horizen mainnet.

Direct Demand Acquisition for Oraclizer

• dApps on the Horizen mainnet become core users of Oraclizer’s state synchronization service.

• Oraclizer can secure an immediate user base with lower entry barriers and integration costs compared to other chains.

• Oraclizer’s usage and network value grow proportionally with the Horizen ecosystem’s expansion.

Conclusion

The strategic partnership between Horizen and Oraclizer represents more than just technical integration. It marks a significant step toward addressing key industry challenges through regulatory compliance, scalability, and fundamental innovation in oracle technology.

The combination of zkVerify’s modular ZK verification network and Oraclizer’s state synchronization technology provides complementary value to both parties. Oraclizer secures economic viability for state synchronization through zkVerify, while zkVerify gains an ideal use case and massive verification traffic through Oraclizer.

Collaboration within the Base L2 ecosystem leverages the benefits of institutional-grade infrastructure and scalability, offering exceptional value to both financial institutions and developers. Through this integration, we are removing critical barriers to bringing the $30 trillion RWA market on-chain, ushering in a new era of true asset interoperability.

Stay tuned for our next update post, where we will share more details about the next steps in the Horizen and Oraclizer partnership and ecosystem integration.