ZK rollups

Kraken Chairman Jesse Powell (CoinDesk)
Kraken Said to Seek Partner to Help Build It a Layer 2 Blockchain Network
The crypto exchange is still considering which blockchain developer should build its network, with Polygon, Matter Labs and the Nil Foundation in the mix, according to people...
Kraken Chairman Jesse Powell (CoinDesk)

Manta is the latest blockchain network to reconsider its commitment to OP Labs' OP Stack. (Justin Henry/Creative Commons)
Manta's Layer-2 Blockchain Already Plans to Ditch OP Stack for Polygon
The network, which just went live a couple weeks ago as a so-called optimistic rollup – the core underpinning of OP Stack – will now become a “ZK-rollup,” which is what Polygo...
Manta is the latest blockchain network to reconsider its commitment to OP Labs' OP Stack. (Justin Henry/Creative Commons)

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)
Scroll zkEVM Launches, Blockchain Data Shows, Competing With Polygon, Matter Labs
The new Ethereum layer-2 network's debut adds to the competition among rival providers of so-called "zkEVMs," including Polygon and Matter Labs.
Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

Buenos Aires (Unsplash)
Buenos Aires Releases Blockchain Digital Identity Solution Powered by zkSync's ZK Proofs
Citizens of Buenos Aires can access the identity solution, the QuarkID wallet, where they can store their birth and marriage certificates, according to the city government.
Buenos Aires (Unsplash)

Image tweeted by Celo officials on Monday from conference in Barcelona. (Celo)
Polygon Emerges as Suitor for Celo’s New Layer-2 Blockchain, Competing With OP Stack
Celo, which is ditching its standalone blockchain in favor of a new "layer-2" network atop Ethereum, had originally signaled plans to rely on Optimism's OP Stack, a similar cu...
Image tweeted by Celo officials on Monday from conference in Barcelona. (Celo)

Optimism CEO Karl Floersch (Optimism)
Coinbase’s Chosen Blockchain Brand Sees Zero Threat from Zero Knowledge
Many Ethereum aficionados have predicted that the most promising layer-2 blockchains would be built not using the OP Stack’s “optimistic rollup” technology – favored by the U....
Optimism CEO Karl Floersch (Optimism)

StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
Starkware to Open-Source ‘Magic Wand’ of Its Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Next Week
The team behind the layer 2 Starknet blockchain said that they will also hold a code review on Aug. 31 at a conference in San Francisco.
StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

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Immutable, Web3 Gaming Platform, Launches zkEVM Testnet in Bid to Diversify Infrastructure
The ZK rollup is built using Polygon scaling technology, designed to make it easier for developers to spin up new application-specific blockchains.
Number Tunnel series. Artistic abstraction composed of CPU chip, colorful numbers and fractal elements in perspective on the subject of computers, mathematics, science and education

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)
Zero-Knowledge Rollup ZKM Sets Out to Make Ethereum 'Universal Settlement Layer'
With funding from the foundation that oversees development of the Metis layer-2 Ethereum protocol, ZKM is developing a hybrid rollup that combines an Optmistic rollup and Zero...
Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

Avail founder Anurag Arjun. (Avail)
What Is Ethereum’s ‘Data Availability' Problem, and Why Does It Matter?
Separate “data availability” layers could reduce congestion on the Ethereum network by making it easier for ancillary “rollup” networks to verify that transactional details ex...
Avail founder Anurag Arjun. (Avail)