Ethereum scaling platform, Polygon, has finally announced the date for the launch of zkEVM Public Mainnet Beta. The Polygon zkEVM Testnet went live last year, showing the world what seamless scaling for Ethereum would look like.
Announcing this in a Twitter post, the crypto platform said it would launch the new layer-2 scaling solution on March 27. It also claimed the zkEVM would be equivalent to Ethereum’s Virtual Machine, aiming to expand Ethereum’s scaling capabilities further.
The zkEVM Mainnet Beta is a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine that performs off-chain computations on a secondary layer. This is to enable faster and cheaper transactions while prioritizing security.
Because of its equivalence to the EVM, it will likely support the same code as Ethereum. Hence, developers can onboard apps from Ethereum for use on Polygon’s zkEVM network without making significant changes.
According to a statement by Polygon,
“Polygon zkEVM is the gold standard for EVM-equivalence, having passed 100% of the Ethereum test vectors that apply to a zkEVM. Developers can copy-paste code that works on Ethereum and use it to build on Polygon zkEVM without having to change a thing–all Ethereum tooling works seamlessly with Polygon zkEVM. That’s frictionless scaling.”
Also, the proof duration for a batch of hundreds of transactions is nearly two minutes and is expected to take less time in the future. In addition, Polygon zkEVM can generate proofs in parallel, enabling high throughput with transactions settling on L1 in just a few minutes.
Polygon will be releasing more details concerning the zkEVM Mainnet Beta subsequently till the expected date.
