{"id":55656,"date":"2022-01-11T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55656"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:40:29","slug":"polygon-unveils-scaling-solution-for-plonky2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/polygon-unveils-scaling-solution-for-plonky2\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon unveils scaling solution for Plonky2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polygon team unveiled a scaling solution for Plonky2 based on zero-knowledge proofs. According to the developers, it is an order of magnitude faster and more efficient than existing alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Today we\u2019re excited to announce Plonky2, our groundbreaking proof system and a major milestone for zero-knowledge cryptography and Ethereum scaling \ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udcab<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/Igw9igtAqJ\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/Igw9igtAqJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polygon Zero \ud83d\udc9c (@0xPolygonZero) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygonZero\/status\/1480602397000957953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cPlonky2 is a recursive SNARK that is 100 times faster than existing alternatives and natively compatible with Ethereum,\u201d the project\u2019s blog states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The key feature is that Plonky2 can verify other SNARK proofs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cSuppose we want to prove that a batch of 1,000 transactions is valid. Creating a single proof to simultaneously verify 1,000 transactions would be costly and time-consuming. Instead we can deploy 1,000 machines and parallelly generate 1,000 proofs \u2014 one for each transaction. Then we can take these transaction proofs and aggregate them, creating a layer of recursive proofs, each of which verifies two others. We repeat this process until only a single proof remains, attesting to the 1,000 transactions,\u201d the developers explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They say the recursive approach is fast, resource-efficient\u2014and could be more decentralised.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December, the project <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/polygon-acquires-mir-protocol-in-400-million-deal\">Polygon<\/a> absorbed the Mir Protocol startup, which develops the Plonky2 protocol. The deal was worth $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Mir Protocol became Polygon Zero.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/polygon-acquires-hermez-network-in-250-million-deal\">Polygon<\/a> acquired the Hermez Network platform, which also specialises in L2 based on ZK-Rollups. The deal was worth $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the project said it would allocate $1 billion to the development of related ZK-Rollups solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Polygon <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/polygon-unveils-zk-rollups-based-scaling-solution-for-ethereum\">announced the Ethereum solution Miden<\/a> based on ZK-Rollups and released its central component \u2014 a virtual machine that uses the zk-STARKs protocol as its underlying proof system.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polygon team unveiled a scaling solution for Plonky2 based on zero-knowledge proofs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1179,1264,277],"class_list":["post-55656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-polygon-matic","tag-scaling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55658,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656\/revisions\/55658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}