Introduction

ZK Compression is a Solana account primitive that lets you create tokens and PDAs at a fraction of the cost. Scale your application to millions of users without sacrificing L1 performance and security guarantees.

Creation

Regular Account

Compressed Account

Cost Reduction

100-byte PDA Account

0.0016 SOL

~ 0.00001 SOL

160x

100 Token Accounts

~ 0.2 SOL

~ 0.00004 SOL

5000x

Core Features

Rent-free Accounts

Create accounts without paying upfront rent.

L1 Performance

Execution and data availability on Solana.

Fully Composable

Compatible with existing programs and accounts.

Start Building

Quick Start

Test compressed tokens in less than 5 minutes.

Compressed Tokens

Create and distribute tokens 5000x cheaper with SPL compatibility.

Compressed PDAs

Store your app state 160x cheaper with full PDA functionality.

What is ZK Compression?

ZK Compression is an account primitive that combines generalized state compression and to reduce the on-chain state footprint and storage cost.

Compression

Instead of storing account data in millions of on-chain accounts, state compression stores account data on the with cryptographic security. Only a small fingerprint is stored on-chain. This fingerprint allows transactions to use the account data in Solana's virtual machine as if it were stored on-chain. Compression is the only technology that sustainably solves state bloat in blockchains like Solana. We've designed the compression protocol to be highly performant with minimal compute overhead.

ZK

The protocol uses small zero-knowledge proofs (validity proofs) to verify the integrity of the compressed accounts. By default, this is all done under the hood. You can fetch validity proofs from RPC providers that support ZK Compression.