About zkmem — Memory Infrastructure for Zero-Knowledge
We make zero-knowledge proving fit in memory.
zkmem is a zero-knowledge memory infrastructure company. We focus on a single, stubborn problem: ZK proving consumes enormous amounts of RAM, and that ceiling decides what teams can — and cannot — build.
Speed gets the headlines. Memory stops the build.
Most of the zero-knowledge ecosystem optimizes proving speed. We optimize the resource that actually stops teams cold: memory. Peak RAM, allocation patterns, and fragmentation determine whether a proof runs on a laptop, a CI runner, an edge device — or only on an oversized server.
By working at the memory layer — streaming pipelines, arena allocators, and cache-aware data layout — we turn proving from an unpredictable, memory-hungry process into one with a small, constant, plannable footprint.
RAM is the constraint. We build the layer that makes it predictable.
Two products. One memory problem.
Our solutions are deliberately narrow and deep — a streaming prover and a ZK-native allocator that attack the same bottleneck from different angles.
Infrastructure, not demos.
We build for production behavior — predictable memory characteristics, integrations that drop into existing proving stacks without forcing rewrites. The cores are open-source; our work with enterprise teams is about deploying, tuning, and supporting them at scale.
What we optimize for.
Memory first
We treat RAM as the primary constraint in ZK, because in practice it is.
Production-grade
Predictable, supported, and built to run in real pipelines — not benchmarks.
Drop-in by design
Integrations that respect the stack you already have.
Talk to us about your proving workload.
Tell us where memory is hurting your ZK pipeline. We'll show you which solution fits and how to deploy it.