spalladino/zkp-tests

The project 'zkp-tests' by Santiago Palladino is a historical and educational repository rather than a production-ready tool. With 107 stars and 1220 days of age, it gained some traction during the early rise of ZK tooling in the Ethereum ecosystem, likely buoyed by the author's reputation at OpenZeppelin. However, with a velocity of 0.0/hr and no recent commits, the project is functionally stagnant. It serves as a 'reimplementation' of standard ZK patterns (like Merkle tree proofs or basic arithmetic circuits) using early versions of Circom and ZoKrates. From a competitive standpoint, it lacks any moat; the value lies entirely in its use as a learning reference. It is easily displaced by more modern, actively maintained boilerplate and educational resources like the 'zk-learning' series or 'awesome-zkp' lists. Frontier labs are unlikely to compete directly as this isn't a product, but the rapid evolution of ZK-VMs (RISC Zero, Succinct) and newer DSLs (Noir, Leo) makes these specific 3-year-old test cases largely obsolete for modern developers.