Why choose to "access the mature proof market" instead of building a cluster by ourselves @cysic_xyz

Many teams working on ZK/verifiable computation initially respond by building their own prover clusters, but by the end of 2025, a better solution will actually be to "treat proofs as a commodity to buy."

First, production capacity is ready. Succinct has officially confirmed that Cysic is entering the Prover Network as a multi-node prover, directly using GPU clusters to undertake production-level orders; you just need to throw the tasks in, it's "we take on work as it comes, and settle by quantity", without needing to spend money on buying cards or setting up control and scheduling.

Second, costs can be continuously reduced. The C1 mass production developed by Cysic, combined with existing GPU optimizations, aims to further lower $/proof and W/proof - buying results is more like a "public utility" than renting machines.

Thirdly, the settlement and automation are smoother. They expanded Google's A2A to Crypto A2A, adding payment_required to the standards, supporting pre-payment and then settlement, execution after on-chain confirmation, and automated tasks can follow the "order → payment → execution → receipt" closed loop, eliminating the need for the payment and reconciliation glue layer you built yourself.

If you are making a technical selection, the decision-making framework can be framed like this:
- Use SPN throughput/failure rate to verify "Can it really withstand production load?" Succinct
- Compare self-built vs purchased external proofs using $/proof and W/proof (including hardware depreciation, electricity costs, and labor).
- Check A2A paid conversion to confirm whether your task flow can be settled end-to-end automatically.