Powdr Labs is an open-source zero-knowledge tooling organization that builds performance and security infrastructure for zkVMs. Powdr Labs's Twitter Score is 35 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #26,875 (top 10%) among 482,922 tracked accounts.
Powdr Labs was co-founded by Christian Reitwiessner, Thibaut Schaeffer, Leo Alt, Lucas Vella, and Georg Wiese. The organization began as an Ethereum Foundation project before becoming an independent entity focused on ZK tooling, security, and applied research. Its backers include Taiko, Scroll, and the Starknet Foundation, and it is affiliated with Certora.
Powdr Labs builds and maintains powdr, an open-source SDK that connects high-level programs to ZK provers through a modular compiler architecture. On top of this, the team released powdrVM, a modular zkVM supporting multiple proving systems and standard Rust programs. Powdr Labs also develops autoprecompiles, compiler-generated circuits designed to accelerate computationally expensive portions of zkVM guest programs, and produced powdr-wasm, a WebAssembly-based zkVM built using its crush compiler framework and the OpenVM modular zkVM framework.
Powdr Labs has published 126 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 22 accounts, with 30 total mentions.
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