Massive day yesterday! Three blockchain groups made bulletins all in someday!
All of them engaged on options that use zero-knowledge proofs (that factor I mentioned would change blockchain perpetually):
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Polygon introduced Polygon zkEVM
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Scroll introduced their pre-alpha
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zkSync introduced they’re “100 days away” from full launch
Okay, so they don’t seem to be *actual* bulletins since one among them introduced a comically early model of their product and one other introduced that… they may announce the precise factor later(?)
Persist with me right here. Let me dive into the importance of those milestones in order that we are able to make sense of why these merchandise are vital.
Half 1: Ethereum is admittedly gradual. 35 transactions per second. There’s this concept that we are able to use “rollups” to scale Ethereum: these are separate blockchains specializing in packing a ton of transactions into 1 of these 35 in order that Ethereum can course of extra stuff directly.
Half 2: Zero-knowledge proofs are one approach to implement these rollups. They primarily calculate some loopy math and ship that math to Ethereum. Ethereum checks the mathematics (which is method, method sooner than checking the precise stuff that occurred) and says, “Okay cool, I am gonna quick ahead the tape!”
Half 3: However the rollups are restricted proper now. Particularly, the rollups are both designed for very particular use instances (e.g., exchanges and nothing else) or it’s important to use a special sort of pc than the one Ethereum makes use of (which could be actually sophisticated).
For a lot of these rollups to work properly, we have to construct one which thinks like Ethereum’s pc thinks, whereas supporting each use case that Ethereum can assist, whereas supporting the identical programming language that Ethereum helps, whereas spitting out that loopy math.
Whew.
However that is what these groups are engaged on. The “Ethereum pc” is named the EVM (Ethereum Digital Machine) and these groups are engaged on zkEVMs – EVMs with zero-knowledge proofs (that loopy math) embedded.
Every has a special strategy to writing these zkEVMs. For instance, one strategy is to make every particular person command within the EVM spit out a zk model of that particular person command. One other strategy is to actually rewrite every particular person command to a zk verison.
The abstract: lastly, we’ll have a zero-knowledge rollup that scales Ethereum, is easy-to-use by builders (they’ll actually copy and paste code as an alternative of getting to rewrite it) and helps any use case (vs. current ones that solely do sure issues).
The infrastructure continues to enhance!
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