Polygon Launches Mainnet Beta for ‘Polygon zkEVM’

Expansion of scaling technology

Polygon Labs, which develops the network of the crypto asset (virtual currency) Polygon (MATIC), announced on the 27th that it launched the mainnet beta version of the Ethereum (ETH) scaling solution “Polygon zkEVM” on the same day as planned.

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He also explained that Polygon zkEVM is now fully open source. He said the launch was an important event for Polygon, Ethereum, and Web3 as a whole.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for – Polygon #zkEVM Mainnet Beta is LIVE with @Vitalik Buterin performing the symbolic first transaction.

Permissionless
Public
Fast finality
Leading EVM-equivalent zkEVM
Completely open source

More https://t.co/Xo4mbhnASh

— Polygon (labs) (@0xPolygonLabs) March 27, 2023

The first memorable transaction was executed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. From the beginning, Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta has been used by various dApps (decentralized apps), game projects, and infrastructure projects.

Source: Polygon Labs

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Polygon Labs explained that this beta launch is not the final goal. Over the next few months, we will be making announcements about the development of the Polygon zkEVM. He also cautioned that Polygon zkEVM is still in alpha and may not work perfectly at launch.

Features of Polygon zkEVM

Polygon zkEVM is a scaling solution that introduces “ZK Rollup”, a rollup technology that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs. At the time of the mainnet beta version, it has the following four features.

• It is a free-for-all public network
• Equivalent to Ethereum virtual machine
• fast finality
• is open source

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Regarding the future, he explained that he will strengthen “security”, which Polygon Labs places the most importance on. It said it would gradually decentralize and take measures to ensure that users are protected no matter what happens.

It also says it will be able to force transactions on the L1 Ethereum blockchain in the event of problems to ensure the network is censorship resistant.

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