Polygon launched the long-awaited mainnet for its new Polygon zkEVM network today, and to mark the occasion, the core developers of the sidechainsidechain invited Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin to send out the very first transaction—and he included a hidden message.
Buterin appeared on a livestreamed event to mark the occasion, and while building the transaction, he included the following message converted into hex code: “A few million constraints for man, unconstrained scalability for mankind.”
“And just like that, Vitalik Buterin has completed the first transaction on the newly deployed Polygon zkEVM chain,” Polygon Labs President Ryan Wyatt tweeted this morning. “This is a big moment for scaling decentralized protocols to handle our growth.”
Polygon zkEVM is billed as a next-generation blockchain network that enables faster and cheaper transactions that Ethereum’s own mainnet can handle.
— sanket.polygon | polygon zkEVM on 27th March (@sourcex44) March 27, 2023
Unlike previous layer-2 and sidechain networks, a zkEVM pairs zero-knowledge rollups—which bundle together loads of transactions and execute those proofs onto Ethereum—with full compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. That means that it’s a native complement to Ethereum and that smart contracts, which contain the code that powers decentralized protocols and software, can be easily moved over to the zkEVM network.
Another day, another zkEVM launch.
Polygon today announced the final mainnet for its zkEVM product after the product’s testnet launch last October.
“zkEVM can be recognized as the ‘holy grail’ of blockchain scaling,” Polygon’s co-founder Mihailo Bjelic told Decrypt. “It offers simultaneously three very important features. First is scalability. The second one is security. And the third one is EVM equivalency, or EVM compatibility. All three are equally important.”
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“zkEVM can be recognized as the ‘holy grail’ of blockchain scaling,” Polygon’s co-founder Mihailo Bjelic told Decrypt ahead of today’s launch.
It’s not the only zkEVM network out there, however: others are in development, and rival zkSync launched its own mainnet last week ahead of Polygon’s previously-announced move.
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