Polygon (Magic), the Ethernet layer 2 telescopic agreement, is conducting functional testing of medium-to-zero knowledge aggregation (ZK ROLUPS) technology before it is fully integrated with the main online line.

The development of this technology called Polygon zkEVM (etheric virtual device) has been under way by the Polygon Hermez team for more than three years. The team has verified the possibility of zero-knowledge proof in the ether by forming more than 12000 ZK in the initial and intermediate versions of the zkEVM test network.

David Schwartz, the project manager for Polygon zkEVM and PolygonID, decompressed this functional development in the Cointelegraph newsletter. The second layer service platform has been developing and optimizing rapidly, which plays a leading role in promoting the scalability of Etherum.

As he explained, zero-knowledge aggregation improves the speed of the second-tier service platform to complete the final results, while ensuring the application of zero-knowledge technology for transaction authentication. In blockchain terminology, finality refers to a time node in which a trading blockchain is considered to have been permanently and inevitably imported into the blockchain:

Eventually, we will have zkEVM, such as Polygon zkEVM, which provides all of these functions in addition to the equivalent of the Ethernet VM virtual machine with ZK-STARKS and ZK-SNARKS high-end methods.

According to Schwartz, Polygon zkEVM covers the first available detailed source code-zkProver, the equivalent of EVM, which has passed full space vector testing at more than 99%. He describes the proof of the effectiveness of traditional client transactions as "extremely interesting and most rewarding diligence" since its team gradually developed its original zkEVM.

Two years ago, the Polygon team might have taken nearly 10 years to develop ZK induction adapted to EVM. As a result of the progress made, the team described zkEVM as the final game, combining cutting-edge layer 2 extensibility with quick final decisions. When more freight volume and lower costs are increased, this provides a large number of benefits for consumers.

Cointelegraph also doubts the difference between Polygon zkEVM and another etheric layer 2 expansion of Internet StarkNet's unique ZK-Snark and ZK-Stak technologies. As previously revealed, ZK-STARKS (Zero-Knowledge Scalable Transform Argument of Knowledge) improves scalability mainly by batch processing thousands of commands with a single direct evidence to determine the effectiveness of transactions on the chain.

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Schwartz said that the important difference between the two new projects depends on zkEVM's commitment to expanding the etheric ecosystem with the device approach, rather than any other ZK-ROLUP, only to expand transaction management and improve performance under different VM file formats.

Polygon's approach claims to be in line with the category 2 zkEVM described by Etherum founder Vitalik Buterin in August 2022. According to Buterin's summary, category 2 zkEVM is intended to be fully compatible with current applications, but minor changes to the ether are conducive to development and faster direct evidence formation. Schwartz added:

By comparison, StarkNet is positioned as Type 4, introducing a new programming language and requiring the transcoding process to translate solid code into its own language expression.

At the same time, Schwartz warmly welcomes the opportunity to get more standards and source code from many projects so that they can be learned in different ways. Etheric Tier 2 solution-themed activities have grown steadily, with blockchain data showing that trading volume litigation and cheerfulness surpassed the etheric's online transactions to 2023.