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EthCC #4 | "The Polygon zkEVM Frontier" - Mihailo Bjelic

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷

With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum.

In episode 4, Mihailo Bjelic joins us to discuss the announcement of Polygon’s zkEVM. This explosive headline comes alongside three other zkEVM announcements. 

Why now? What does this all mean?!

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0:00 Intro
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19:30 EthCC 2021

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the ETHCC experience.

0:05.6

We are almost halfway through.

0:07.2

This one is with Mihalo from Polygon.

0:09.6

Polygon was super hyping up their announcement, which they announced at the ETHCC number

0:14.4

six conference, which was their ZK EVM.

0:17.7

And as it turns out, fate would have a decide that they were actually just one of three teams

0:22.2

that decided to release their ZK EVM during ETHCC week.

0:26.1

ETHCC is big like that in the sense that people wait to release their announcements for ETHCC

0:31.9

or they rush to get their thing announced at ETHCC.

0:35.4

ETHCC is actually quite a big deal as far as conferences go.

0:38.4

And Polygon waited for ETHCC to release their ZK EVM.

0:42.6

But the ZK EVM wars are on.

0:45.0

So we talked to Mihalo about everything they're doing with the ZK EVM at Polygon.

0:49.0

And of course, all the other peripheral topics around Polygon.

0:52.1

And there's a fun little backstory because I was hanging out with Mihalo

0:55.1

at the last ETHCC, which is really where the ZK EVM announcement really got

1:00.9

accepted behind the scenes way back when with a phone call, which I was just like

1:05.1

sitting with my good friend Mariano Conti having a beer with Usury and Mihalo when he received

1:09.6

a phone call.

1:10.6

Fast forward one year later, they released a ZK EVM test net as a fallout of that phone call.

1:15.2

So it's a fun little story.

1:16.2

So we tell this story and more in this fantastic episode of the ETHCC experience.

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