Polygon developers are encouraging people to join the zkEVM testnet, report bugs, and explore the code hosted on Github.
The blockchain project Polygon has announced the launch of the zkEVM public testnet, a layer two scaling solution announced in July that aims to reduce fees and inherit the security of the Ethereum blockchain. Polygon considers the testnet “the first open-source zkEVM network,” and developers are encouraging people to join the testnet, report bugs, and explore the code hosted on Github.
In addition to inviting users to test the project, the decentralized finance platforms Uniswap and Aave will be joining in on the zkEVM testing network, alongside the gaming studio Midnight Society and the social media platform Lens. “Using zero-knowledge tech to scale the Ethereum Virtual Machine is a big challenge,” Polygonon Monday. “We want to keep what we love about Ethereum while harnessing the power of ZK proofs.
The zkEVM testnet comes at a time when there’s a myriad of L2 projects advancing toward scaling Ethereum and a number of them leverage ZK technology. L2 projects like Loopring, Zksync, Arbitrum, Boba, Aztec, Immutable X, and Optimism aim to provide better scalability, faster transactions, and reduced fees. Alongside ZK technology, some L2 projects use optimistic rollups, while others leverage validium. The difference between the other L2s and zkEVM is the project’s EVM compatibility equivalence.
“EVM-equivalence is a spectrum, and the testnet version of Polygon zkEVM is not yet everything we want it to become,” the team’snotes. “Vitalik’s framework currently puts our zkEVM in the ‘Type 3’ category of protocols, which are ‘almost EVM-equivalent, but make a few sacrifices to exact equivalence to further improve prover times and make the EVM easier to develop.’ Our goal is to become a Type 2, meaning Polygon zkEVM will eventually ‘look exactly like Ethereum ‘from within.
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