A summary of the five major ZK projects to be released: Scroll, Starknet, Zksync, Taiko, and Polygon
The technology that was once considered challenging and would take years to achieve is now almost within our reach.Author: Salazar Slytherin
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
Last week, discussions around the Zk narrative reached unprecedented heights. CoinGecko, a popular cryptocurrency data aggregator, introduced a new category for Zk coins.
Some of these tokens, such as $LRC, $DUSK, $MUTE, and $MINA, experienced significant growth. However, these are not necessarily the best or true innovators in the Zk space. It is important to consider all factors and developments within the Zk ecosystem before determining which projects are at the forefront of this new technological era.
"Builders are building," and they have not yet launched. Most are still in testnets and do not have tokens. We will explore them in this short article.
1. Scroll
The goal of Type 2 zkEVM is to be a Rollup equivalent to EVM, making it easy for developers to port code from L1 to its zkRollup.
2. Polygon zkEVM
Polygon has invested significant resources into teams like Hermez and Zero to develop a Type 2 zk-EVM that is EVM equivalent. The goal is to enable developers to build on Polygon zkEVM as easily as they would on Ethereum L1.
3. Starknet
It is incompatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), freeing it from the limitations of EVM functionality. Instead, it builds and uses its own technology, Cairo. It also has its own zk-SNARK-based zero-knowledge (ZK) algorithm—zk-Stark. This provides advantages such as zero-trust setups and superior ZK performance.
4. Taiko
Taiko is a Type 1 zkEVM, making it fully equivalent to ETH. It prioritizes EVM compatibility and zkR decentralization over proof generation, and it is also part of Loopring.
5. Zksync
Type 4 zkEVM. Developers write code in Solidity, which is then transformed into Yul (converting high-level language code into low-level language code). LLVM (Low-Level Virtual Machine) then compiles Yul into ZK bytecode, which is executed through zkVM.
Conclusion
This technology, once considered challenging and thought to take years to realize, is now almost within our reach, giving us more reasons to feel excited and eagerly anticipate its various technological implementations. Zk-Rollup (zkRs) has the potential to scale Ethereum (ETH) in unprecedented ways.
