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Binance Research (Moulik Nagesh, Shivam Sharma)
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Matter Labs, the team behind zkSync Lite (a first-generation Ethereum zk-rollup), launched the first public zkEVM solution, zkSync Era. The launch represents an important milestone for the adoption of zkEVM technology.
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zkSync Era has notable differences from its optimistic rollup counterparts (i.e., Arbitrum and Optimism). These differences relate to security, capital efficiency, and transaction costs.
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zkPorter is an interesting, upcoming innovation by Matter Labs and is an off-chain data availability solution that complements the zkSync Era rollup. zkPorter offers a significant upgrade in transaction speed and cost to current solutions.
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zkSync Era has attracted a significant amount of TVL and unique deposit addresses since their March mainnet, especially when compared to competitors.
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Some of this activity is likely in relation to a long-rumored airdrop for zkSync.
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StarkNet, Polygon zkEVM, Scroll, Taiko, and Linea are also working on (or have released) competing zkEVM solutions.
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