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zkSync Era Mainnet Launch & NEW zkEVM with Alex Gluchowski and Anthony Rose

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Alex Gluchowski is the Co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs and the creator of zkSync. Anthony Rose is the head of engineering at Matter Labs and has a background in software and machine learning. Prior to joining Matter Labs, Anthony spent a number of years in the industry building teams at SpaceX. 

In today’s episode, the four talk about zkSync’s massive announcement, they’ve launched their zkEVM to mainnet! They also delve into the engineering challenges, what zk unlocks, the difference between zkEVM vs Optimistic Rollups, what builders need to know, and of course…wen token?! 

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro
8:15 zkSync’s Era Mainnet Launch
8:53 The Importance of zkSync Era
9:53 zkSync Era
13:53 Staged Roll-Out
18:50 zkSync Era Projects
21:14 Engineering Challenges 
26:25 What Does zk Unlock? 
28:16 zkEVMd vs Optimistic Rollups
36:35 How Low Can Gas Fees Go?
39:22 The Power of zkEVMs
48:58 How is zkSync Era Different?
53:08 New Risks to Pay Attention to
55:35 Path to Decentralization & Security
1:03:42 What Do Builders Need to Know? 
1:05:36 Resources
1:07:12 Token?! 
1:08:20 Closing & Disclaimers

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Resources:

zkSync Website
https://zksync.io/ 

Alex Gluchowski
https://twitter.com/gluk64 

Anthony Rose
https://twitter.com/anthonykrose 

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0:00.0

If we want to build a truly limitless internet of value, internet of raw ups, it has to be trustless.

0:09.0

So all the bridges must be ZK and that means that all the chains participating in this network have to be ZK chains.

0:15.0

This is our vision for hyperscalability.

0:21.0

The ZK EVM is here. It's on mainnet. David, we've got the episode.

0:26.0

The announcement just went out as we are pressing publish on this episode. What are we talking about today?

0:32.0

We are talking about ZK sync era. The mainnet is live. As of right now, we've got the two people from the ZK sync team.

0:39.0

We've got Alex Lukowski who's been with ZK sync since forever, co-founder and CEO of Matterlabs, the team behind ZK sync.

0:46.0

We also got Anthony. Anthony is the new head of engineering, which is a very ambitious role as it relates to ZK stuff.

0:53.0

That sounds challenging. We're going to walk through what this announcement is. What does it mean for a ZK EVM to go live?

1:00.0

In the era of bank failures, we have a new era for Ethereum. At least that is what the ZK sync is saying along with. There's ZK sync era.

1:08.0

Chain. So that is the announcement. We're going to get into all these details and more so you can be informed about what this new frontier Ethereum is.

1:15.0

Yes, this is the frontier of the frontiers. And that's where we're headed today. Hey, David, before we get in, got to do a shout out.

1:22.0

This one's for the devs. We got a special announcement for the devs sponsored by our friends over at consensus on the Infura team.

1:31.0

David, what do they want folks to know?

1:33.0

Yeah, specifically for the NFT devs out there. This is coming down from Infura. So Infura's got an NFT SDK and toolkit for you to build your NFT projects.

1:43.0

And so it's got 14 different endpoints that allows you to read data from eight different blockchains. You can aggregate it, analyze it, filter it, build a dashboard.

1:52.0

And this SDK allows you to provide you tools to write to five different blockchains. All of the use cases that you need for your basic NFT stuff, selling NFT, buying NFT, minting NFT.

2:04.0

All of this SDK from Infura is to help you the NFT dev build your NFT product. There is a link in the show notes to get started with this Biffy new SDK from Infura.

2:14.0

That's really cool. Infura, of course, started with Ethereum nodes. Now they're providing a full NFT API SDK for the devs. Go check that out.

2:23.0

David, before we get in, we have some disclosures to make. Of course, you can always find all of our disclosures on our disclosure page at bankless.com slash disclosures.

2:32.0

Just want to let the bankless audience know we are advisors to ZK sync. We are friends of the project. We believe in its mission. We believe in scaling Ethereum through ZK EVMs.

2:43.0

That is not why they're on the podcast today. They are on the podcast today because they built something. They launched something really big. David, what should folks pay attention to going to this episode?

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