Polygon zkEVM Launch with Mihailo Bjelic and Jordi Baylina
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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks to Polygon's Mihailo and Jordi about the launch of their zkEVM!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:58 Polygon zkEVM
10:40 What Polygon zkEVM Unlocks?
16:40 Polygon zkEVM vs. PoS
18:20 Polygon PoS Chain
22:24 Cost Per Transaction
24:30 Optimistic Rollup vs. zkEVM
29:37 Polygon Ecosystem
38:06 Polygon zkEVM Value Proposition
46:00 Risks of New Tech
54:15 $MATIC
56:20 Closing, Resources, & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Mihailo
https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic
Jordi
https://twitter.com/jbaylina
Polygon Labs Launches zkEVM Layer 2
https://www.theblock.co/post/222950/polygon-labs-unveils-zkevm-layer-2-scaling-solution
https://wiki.polygon.technology/docs/zkEVM/develop/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Banclist Nation, welcome to another episode of State of the Nation. |
| 0:07.8 | We're talking today about Scaling Ethereum with the Polygon ZK EVM that was just announced |
| 0:13.6 | today. |
| 0:14.6 | David couldn't make it for this episode, so I am solo with Mahalo and Jordy from the |
| 0:19.4 | Polygon ZK EVM project, really excited to dive into this conversation a few things we're |
| 0:24.5 | talking about. |
| 0:25.5 | Because as we said before, this is ZK EVM season. |
| 0:28.8 | We had ZK sync on Friday. |
| 0:30.8 | Today, the Polygon ZK EVM is now out, so we talk about it. |
| 0:35.5 | As we get into this episode, we're about to discuss what just dropped today, so what |
| 0:38.7 | you can use today. |
| 0:40.0 | We discuss ZK rollups versus optimistic rollups, which ones are better and for what purposes. |
| 0:45.8 | We also discuss what happens to the Polygon proof of stake chain. |
| 0:49.3 | We discuss the new frontiers and opportunities that this unlocks. |
| 0:52.8 | And of course, we talk about the future of thematic token. |
| 0:56.2 | One disclosure before we get in, I am an advisor to the Polygon project, been supportive |
| 0:59.4 | of this project for a long time and excited to see what they're doing here. |
| 1:03.4 | Okay, guys, we're going to get right to the episode of Polygon, but before we do, I want |
| 1:06.4 | to thank the sponsors that made this episode possible, including Kraken. |
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