ConsenSys launches zkEVM private beta testnet

According to a caller blog post connected Dec. 13, Web 3.0 ecosystem developer ConsenSys unveiled its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) web for backstage beta testing. Designed and operated by ConsenSys, developers tin deploy and negociate decentralized applications utilizing tools specified arsenic MetaMask, Truffle, and Infura arsenic if they were utilizing EVM directly. In addition, users tin span assets betwixt the Goerli testnet and the zkEVM to trial their astute contracts and decentralized applications, oregon dApps. 

"Testnet participants tin besides span tokens, transportation tokens, and interact with deployed dApps listed connected our upcoming ecosystem portal page. We mean to larn whether the developer acquisition of the zkEVM has the imaginable to accelerate innovation successful Web3 and volition beryllium evaluating feedback from the assemblage to pass our adjacent step."

For years, ConsenSys has been moving to wrapper EVM computation successful zero-knowledge proofs to make a zkEVM, arsenic opposed to creating zk-rollups connected networks abstracted from the EVM. Zero-knowledge exertion verifies transactions connected a abstracted furniture and sends computation backmost to Ethereum without sending backmost the full data. By simply providing impervious that everything was correctly computed connected furniture 2 and putting a succinct impervious backmost to the blockchain, Ethereum developers estimation that rollup solutions specified arsenic Optimism tin summation scalability by upwards of 100x.

— ConsenSys (@ConsenSys) December 13, 2022

User onboarding for the caller ConsenSys zkEVM volition statesman successful January 2023. ConsenSys says determination are presently nary details regarding however aboriginal testers volition beryllium rewarded oregon if determination volition beryllium a recently issued token tied to the zkEVM.