Polygon’s zkEVM with Jordi Baylina | ETHDenver 2023 Interview #4
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🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. One of the most prestige being, ETHDenver! We’re back with a handful of exclusive interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in crypto.
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In this episode, we’re talking to Jordi Baylina, Technical Lead for Polygon Hermez zkEVM. Polygon’s zkEVM is scheduled to go live on MARCH 27, 2023! So of course, we had to ask Jordi all about it.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:07 Jordi’s ETHDenver Panel
3:58 Was Polygon the 1st zkEVM?
5:54 Frequent Builder Questions
7:23 Polygon zkEVM Timeline
10:35 zkEVM Bugs Explained
16:24 Closing
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Resources:
Jordi Baylina
https://twitter.com/jbaylina
Polygon ZK
https://twitter.com/0xPolygonZK
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| 0:00.0 | We are at the Axelar Interoperability Series, and next up in this conversation, we are |
| 0:16.5 | talking to Jordy of the ZK EVM, used to be ZK Hermes, but then it was acquired by Polygon |
| 0:22.4 | to make the ZK Polygon EVM, which is now one of the hottest wars in the Layer 2 space. |
| 0:29.0 | So that's what's coming up next, right after we talk to some of these fantastic sponsors, |
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| 0:40.6 | with the crypto industry. |
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