ZK-rollup

As zero-knowledge (ZK) technology marches its way toward solving mainstream use cases, the community backing the disruptive tech continues to grow stronger. Over 1,200 ZK developers, community members and enthusiasts, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, attended the latest zkDay I ...

Ethereum layer 2 scaling network Starknet has outlined plans to improve the decentralization of three core components of its zero-knowledge proof rollup solution (ZK-rollup).Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph, Starknet product manager and blockchain researcher Ilia Volokh outlined the f ...

Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals ...

Decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) network Ritual came out of stealth mode to announce a $25 million Series A financing for the company, led by Archetype. The company offers an AI-powered infrastructure that aims to execute complex logic currently infeasible for smart contracts.Whi ...

Zero knowledge-proof (ZK-proof) scalability solutions have grown in prominence in the crypto ecosystem in recent years, making way for several ZK-focused conferences and events. A marquee ZK conference dedicated to the growing community will take place on Nov. 13 in Istanbul, Turkey. ZkDay is hos ...

Scroll, a new contender in the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) space that works to scale the blockchain, has confirmed the launch of its mainnet.The team behind Scroll announced the launch in an Oct. 17 post and added that existing applications and developer tool kits on Et ...

Manta, a blockchain network focusing on zero-knowledge (ZK) applications, will migrate its software from OP Stack to Polygon CDK, according to an October 16 announcement. This means that Manta will not be integrated into the upcoming Optimism Superchain and will instead become part of the Polygon ...

Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof solutions have proved critical in helping scale the Ethereum ecosystem, but proto-danksharding is expected to drastically reduce the cost of rollups, according to Consensys’ zkEVM Linea head Nicolas Liochon.Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph Magazine edito ...

Zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proofs) solutions have proved critical in helping scale the Ethereum ecosystem, but proto-danksharding is expected to drastically reduce the cost of roll ups according to Consensys’ zkEVM Linea head Nicolas Liochon.Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph Magazine edi ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge proof technology.The document initially discusses ...

The centralization of nodes is one of the biggest problems facing the Ethereum network and should be addressed by making the running of nodes cheaper and easier, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.At current, the majority of the 5,901 active Ethereum nodes are being run throu ...

A new zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) technology is set to improve the ability to access and verify historical data from the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, with deep chain validation cited as a usability barrier of the network.Technology firm Herodotus has released its on-chain accumulator whi ...

Decentralized Web3 data service Space and Time has tapped into zero-knowledge-proof technology to cryptographically verify information queries within its ecosystem.The company’s proprietary Proof of SQL allows the platform to generate a SNARK cryptographic proof of a query within ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was dominated by exploits and hacks, with three DeFi platforms losing nearly $39 ...

The launch of the blockchain-based digital passport platform Worldcoin has polarized the cryptocurrency community, with people raising questions about its centralization, privacy and security.Worldcoin released its token, WLD, on July 24, with major exchanges such as Binance announcing sup ...

Zero-knowledge proofs could be used to solve the “biggest problem” plaguing the internet today: privacy, according to one cryptocurrency executive. Speaking with Cointelegraph at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) the marketing chief at privacy-focused infrastructure pla ...

The Ethereum ecosystem welcomes another layer-2 scaling solution as ConsenSys begins onboarding partners to its Linea network, which has produced significant scaling milestones in testing.Linea is an Ethereum layer-2 scaling network that allows developers to build or migrate dece ...

Starknet’s Quantum Leap upgrade has been deployed on testnet, with the Ethereum layer-2 scaling protocol claiming it's capable of processing "hundreds of transactions per second."If achieved, it would be at least a 50X improvement from its current throughput, thanks to the Version 12 ...

Account abstraction, also known as “smart accounts” could eventually onboard a billion users from the Asia region to Web3, according to an executive at Ethereum software solutions provider ConsenSys.Speaking to Cointelegraph, the director of strategic initiatives at ConsenSys, Laura Shi, n ...

Cointelegraph is launching Zero Barriers, a special six-part podcast series in collaboration with StarkWare. The series, which features as part of the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast, will explore the evolving world of zero-knowledge rollups (ZK-rollups) and the next steps for the adoptio ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was filled with artificial intelligence (AI)-centered developments on Etherscan, ...

Starknet, a zero-knowledge layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, is one step closer to becoming fully Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible, pending an August testnet launch of Kakarot, a new zkEVM.On June 3, the Kakarot team announced it had received new backing from Ethereum co-foun ...

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic has proposed upgrading the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) network to a “zkEVM validium” version, according to a June 20 forum post. If the upgrade is implemented, the new version will rely on zero-knowledge proofs to increase security. ...

Round led by Coinbase Ventures Funds are being used to launch mainnet It is planned for the third quarter of 2023 Layer-2 network zkLink announced the closing of a $10 million strategic funding round led by Coinbase Ventures. ...