The incentivized testnet, which the team is calling its Mainnet Beta, will let users participate in the network's decentralized marketplace for ZK computation.
Zero-knowledge proofs are a game-changing innovation with profound implications for how users transact business, but can they replace the conventional contract?
The new cryptographic system lets users prove they’re old enough to use restricted applications without giving more information than required.
BitcoinOS contributor and crypto OG Edan Yago describes forks on Bitcoin as like "open-heart surgery."
In contrast to World’s iris scanning, Humanity’s palm scans are more user-friendly and maintain a high level of security, according to Humanity’s founder.
AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get access to deep wells of liquidity held in BTC.
SingularityNET and Mina Foundation join forces to enhance decentralized AI using zero-knowledge proofs for secure, privacy-preserving innovations.
Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.
Namechain, as the layer-2 blockcain is called, will use a zero-knowledge rollup for scaling and is likely to go live around the end of 2025.
The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea
A longtime regular on the crypto scene, Sovryn and BitcoinOS founder Edan Yago learned the importance of financial sovereignty at an early age.
The crypto-adjacent tech is meant to give the Argentine capital's 3.6 million residents greater control over their personal data.
The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, that is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon's AggLayer.
The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.
StarkWare used its new STARK verifier on the Signet network, a testing environment for Bitcoin, in a proof-on-concept project designed to demonstrate what the oldest blockchain might be capable of were the pending "OP_CAT" technical proposal to get adopted.
Establishing the new role, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal will increase focus on growing ZK solutions, including Polygon CDK.
The zkEVM, called Kakarot, already in testing, will be available via the Starknet Stack.
The convergence of ZK-proofs and decentralized identity systems could create more compliant privacy-preserving protocols, without sacrificing user privacy.
A key element of the upgrade is to enable a new place for storing data on the blockchain – referred to as "proto-danksharding," which gives room for a dedicated space that is separate from regular transactions, and at a lower cost.
By plugging into the AggLayer, Astar users will have access to the liquidity in the Polygon ecosystem, allowing cross-chain transactions between Astar and Polygon zkEVM, making the experience feel like a single chain.
The Taiko project, distinguished for its "based sequencing" architecture, is one of several competing for relevance among a deep field of Ethereum layer-2 networks.
The new open source ZK prover aims to reduce latency and reduce transaction costs for end users.
Circle STARKs are supposed to accelerate the proving process for zero-knowledge rollups, according to a white paper published by Polygon Labs and StarkWare.
Although the intersection of Web3 and AI has great potential, there is a lot of confusion about this emerging technology in the market today. Mapping out the GPU supply chain, layers of the tech stack, and various competitive landscapes can help investors better understand the ecosystem and make more informed investment decisions, says David Attermann, at M31 Capital.
Polygon Labs, a developer of scaling networks for Ethereum, has shifted toward "Polygon CDK," a blockchain-development kit powered by zero-knowledge cryptography. The older "Polygon Edge" was used by Dogechain, in an unofficial effort to build a Dogecoin-oriented smart-contracts network.
The new "Cronos zkEVM chain" is launching initially as a test network, based on Matter Labs’ software tools, which can be used to spin up new layer 2 and layer 3 “hyperchains” atop Ethereum.
Vitalik Buterin, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's executive board, once pushed "layer-2" networks as a way to provide faster and cheaper transactions. Now he's got ideas for "enshrining" some of those functions on the main chain.