Welcome healthy competition - Polygon zkEVM lead

Prominent Ethereum developer companies have deployed various zero-knowledge scaling solutions that promote healthy competition in the ecosystem.

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A healthy competitive environment is fostered among leading Ethereum ecosystem development companies that are building Ethereum zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkEVMs) to scale the network, according to one of Polygon's co-founders.

Jordi Baylina, CTO of Polygon Hermez zkEVM, spoke with Cointelegraph ahead of the launch of EthCC in France. With builders from across the Ethereum ecosystem converging on Paris, zero-knowledge-proof (ZK-proof) scaling tools should be a focal point.

Polygon's ZkEVM uses ZK proofs to reduce transaction costs and increase Ethereum network throughput, while leveraging the security and finality of the Layer 1 blockchain.

ZK proofs have proven to be an important scaling tool for the Ethereum ecosystem. The technology allows protocols like Polygon's zkEVM to handle off-chain transaction calculations before providing proof of lightweight resources to the Ethereum mainnet without revealing any associated data.

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Baylina, who is the head of Polygon's zkEVM, says the scale of development with ZK technology has been extremely beneficial to the wider Ethereum ecosystem:

"Having different projects adds a lot of experience, and it's also a way to test different approaches, ways of managing or solving problems."

Baylina added that various projects mimic good progress and try to improve on it, while failures act as a learning curve for all ZK-based projects in space.

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