Idealistic Ethereum community-built zkEVM Scroll launching in weeks

After 2 years of development, a radical of Ethereum idealists are adjacent to launching their zero-knowledge EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) — Scroll — developed with Ethereum’s values successful mind. 

While determination are already respective zero-knowledge EVMs successful beingness today, Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang told Cointelegraph astatine Token2049 that the task was “idealistic” arsenic the squad was sticking to the doctrine and the principles that Ethereum already cultivates.

Zhang said that they person been moving connected this mostly arsenic a “labor of love,” driven by a shared imaginativeness to standard Ethereum portion staying existent to its decentralization principles.

He added that the task was much quality involvement than simply solving computational problems, “we started successful an unfastened root way, successful a community-driven way,” helium said.

“We tin turn this assemblage precise organically, and past turn our web effect, not successful a precise silly way, not successful a precise marketing-driven assertive way.”

The caller zkEVM is acceptable to motorboat wrong weeks, having already undergone extended investigating and carried retired audits connected the code. Zhang said the Scroll volition motorboat aft immoderate last investigating and large projects similar Uniswap and Aave are acceptable to deploy connected Scroll astatine launch.

Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang. Source: Cointelegraph

The mathematician believes zk-rollups are the “holy grail” oregon best-in-class layer-2 scaling solutions, which are besides precise inexpensive and secure.

However, Scroll is entering a crowded ecosystem that already has zkEVM solutions from Polygon, Immutable, StarkWare, and ConsenSys’ Linea which launched successful August.

Zhang claimed that immoderate of the different systems specified arsenic Linea person immoderate “unproven” parts successful the circuit but believes Scroll provides a “complete proof” of each Ethereum “opcodes” and components of the transaction.

“So it's not lone compared to compatibility, but besides a afloat impervious for proving that everything we already have,” helium said.

Related: Buterin weighs successful connected zk-EVMs’ interaction connected decentralization and security

Scroll is simply a layer-2 scaling task that has been successful improvement for 2 years. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to compress information off-chain, meaning lone proofs are submitted on-chain — enabling higher throughput.

— Scroll (@Scroll_ZKP) September 16, 2023

The EVM constituent enables afloat autochthonal compatibility with immoderate existing Ethereum bundle and applications.

The archetypal setup volition inactive impact immoderate centralization specified arsenic sequencers, Zhang said, but the roadmap volition decentralize this further implicit time.

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