Matter Labs CEO vehemently denies copy-pasting code from Polygon Zero

Alex Gluchowski, the co-founder and CEO of zkSync creator Matter Labs, has denied copy-pasting codification from Polygon Zero, aft the zero-knowledge scaling steadfast accused them of copying the codification from their strategy without due attribution. 

On Aug. 3, Polygon Zero published a agelong blog post saying they judge Matter Labs copied what they described arsenic “performance-critical components” of their zero-knowledge strategy called “Plonky2.” The codification was seen connected Matter Labs’ recently-released proving strategy dubbed “Boojum,” without attributing the code’s archetypal authors, according to Polygon Zero.

The zk-scaling institution said that this behaviour is detrimental to the developer ecosystem. The steadfast highlighted that it tin perchance wounded smaller improvement teams arsenic better-funded competitors could simply reappropriate their enactment without due attribution. They wrote: 

“Copy-pasting root codification without attribution and making misleading claims astir the archetypal enactment is against the unfastened root ethos and hurts the ecosystem.”

Responding to the allegations, Gluchowski denied that they simply copy-pasted the code. The enforcement addressed the issues brought up by Polygon Zero done a agelong tweet. According to Gluchowski, each determination they made toward gathering zkSync was based connected integrity and transparency.

Every determination we marque arsenic a squad towards gathering @zksync is driven by our ethos, which is based connected integrity and transparency. We person made honorable mistakes successful the past, but we ever did our champion to openly admit them and instrumentality responsibility. And volition ever bash truthful successful the… https://t.co/4yjpSCHC2d

— Alex G. ∎ (@gluk64) August 4, 2023

The Matter Labs CEO noted that the Polygon Zero team’s passionateness for what they bash whitethorn person led to rushed arguments and inaccurate statements. “Today’s accusations are unfounded, misleading, and highly disappointing coming from a squad I highly respect,” helium wrote.

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Gluchowski said that some Plonky2 and Boojum are implementations of RedShift construction, which was introduced by Matter Labs, 3 years earlier the Plonky2 paper. The enforcement claimed that the developers of Plonky2 did not springiness them credit, but noted Redshift successful the paper.

Despite this, the CEO admitted that they "could person done it better," and said that they volition use the much modular attack for attribution which the assemblage pointed out.

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