Blockchain
Measuring Every Different’s Rollups
Cash, technological progress, private ambitions and achievements. There’s a complete lot at stake as new EVM-compatible zk-rollup blockchains vye for market share, growth and customers.
It’s in all probability not a shock that, in these thrilling and formative instances for zkEVM, disagreements and discussions amongst leaders of competing initiatives have spilled out into the general public area.
Up to now few days, leaders of Polygon zkEVM, zkSync Period and Scroll have been participating with each other on Twitter, variously taking situation with claims about their initiatives, disputing characterizations of others’, and making an attempt to diffuse the perceived stress with peacemaking remarks.
Polygon Zero Co-Founder Brendan Farmer tussled with Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder and CEO of zkSync creator Matter Labs over relative effectivity and gasoline prices.
ZK wars are already spicy and stuffed with FUD. Per @jbaylina, the correct numbers are 2.27m gasoline for 1116 transactions, so the distinction in effectivity is… mainly zero. https://t.co/0h9GWbAVQA
— Brendan Farmer (@_bfarmer) March 30, 2023
Then, fellow Polygon Zero Co-Founder Daniel Lubarov revealed an article making an attempt to “make clear some info about Polygon zkEVM and the way it compares to others.”
The article primarily compares Polygon zkEVM to zkSync Period, in regard to EVM compatibility, efficiency and safety.
Gluchowski took situation with Lubarov’s evaluation, calling it “extraordinarily biased and deceptive.”
He mentioned, “The sincere approach to do a credibly impartial comparability is to succeed in out to the opposite celebration *earlier than* you publish. In any other case it is a advertising and marketing brochure.”
With the “ZK wars” heating up, there’s been lots of dialogue concerning the deserves of every zkEVM, and some misconceptions. I wrote a submit which I hope will make clear issues: https://t.co/9mH8I3ztER
— Daniel Lubarov (@dlubarov) April 1, 2023
Within the meantime, Farmer posted a separate Twitter thread parsing the distinction between EVM-compatibility and EVM-equivalence, saying that definitions are arbitrary however arguing that Polygon zkEVM is EVM-equivalent for almost 100% of good contracts on the layer-1 Ethereum blockchain.
He then introduced up a December 2022 remark from Scroll Senior Researcher Toghrul Maharramov, who had mentioned Polygon’s rollup was “not a zkEVM.”
Have in mind, I am biased – I work at @0xPolygonLabs!
But in addition understand that there is a vested curiosity in modifying definitions to profit completely different agendas. To not decide on Toghrul, whom I respect, however as of final yr, we weren’t even a zkEVM!https://t.co/mtFm5lcGzO
8/n
— Brendan Farmer (@_bfarmer) March 31, 2023
Polygon Labs President Ryan Watt made a Twitter submit saying that, in comparison with his expertise at Google, Web3 is a a lot smaller area and initiatives must “assume greater and extra collaboratively.”
Scroll Co-Founder Sandy Peng retweeted Watt’s submit with reward for Polygon’s product and advertising and marketing.
In all seriousness we’re all nonetheless small. Polygon has persistently pushed the boundaries on each what their zk groups achieved within the type of product, and the advertising and marketing workforce achieved when it comes to gaining well-liked mindshare. We’ve loads to be taught throughout the board. https://t.co/cs6bAKOqX1
— Sandy | Scroll ???? | ???????? (@SandyPeng1) April 2, 2023
Fellow Scroll Co-Founder Ye Zhang tweeted her settlement, saying that there was extra smoke than hearth within the latest “spicy” Twitter arguments among the many competing zkEVM initiatives.
Though it appears to be like spicy on twitter, @_bfarmer @dlubarov @jbaylina are very pleasant and collaborative! Wonderful progress has been made to prover acceleration and zkEVM engineering.
— Ye Zhang ???? (@yezhang1998) April 2, 2023
