Polygon (MATIC), one of the most popular Ethereum (ETH) scaling platforms, has announced the date of the beta release of the public zkEVM mainnet after three and a half months of testing.
In a blog post recently shared by Polygon, the highly anticipated zkEVM mainnet beta has been announced. If there is no glitch, the team will release the update. March 27He declared that it will start in . Extensive information on what the beta network will include was not shared. With this The main purpose of the update, scaling the network And increase speed was stated.
The team launched the zkEVM testnet last October. Since the testnet went live More than 75,000 ZK proofs produced And 5,000 smart contract activated. With the update to go live in March, the production cost of a ZK proof will be reduced. for $0.06 is expected to fall.
One of the founding partners of Polygon, who made a statement on the subject. Sandeep NailwalzkEVM update Ethereum scaling And Bringing Web3 to the masses described it as a big step forward.
Zero knowledge (ZK) technology is used by many. blockchains And cryptography for a big improvement seen as. In essence, this technology aims to increase the speed of transactions and reduce their costs.