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Polygon Exploring Use of ZK Technology for Main Chain, Co-Founder Bjelic Says

In an interview with CoinDesk, Polygon’s Mihailo Bjelic shared the progress the blockchain is making on becoming a ZK-secure ecosystem.

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon)

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Polygon Q4 Transaction Volatility Linked to FTX Collapse, ZK Rollup Testing: Nansen

According to Nansen, the Ethereum scaling tool Polygon saw wide swings in daily transactions and active addresses during the fourth quarter as users scrambled to move funds during the epic meltdown of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange. The tremendous addition of daily addresses was also partly due to Polygon’s zero-knowledge EVM public testnet launch. "The Hash" panel discusses the report and the outlook for Polygon.

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Where Is the Ethereum Virtual Machine Headed in 2023? (Hint: Beyond Ethereum)

With apps like Uniswap exploring Layer 2s, dYdX building on Cosmos and the rise of appchains on Cosmos next year seems fit for an explosion of EVM experimentation.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Cross-Ecosystem Platform Evmos Partners With Anchorage Digital to Offer Custody and Staking

The announcement comes following the company’s $27 million token sale

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Ripple Begins Testing XRP Ledger Sidechain That’s Compatible With Ethereum Smart Contracts

This is the first step in a three-part process to introduce an EVM-compatible sidechain to the XRP Ledger mainnet.

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Arbitrum Founder Dismisses Launch of First Mainnet zkEVM

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has said that a zkEVM is "not 12 days away from mainnet."

The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)

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An Urbit Airdrop Highlights Promises and Problems of Permissionless Development

The offbeat and controversial computing platform goes through growing pains as it seeks wider adoption through crypto.

Urbit Foundation's Josh Lehman gives a farewell address at Urbit's Assembly conference in Miami, FL in September 2022. (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

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Mythical Games CEO on Building EVM-Compatible Chain in Anticipation of PoS

Mythical Games CEO John Linden says the company has been an early believer in proof-of-stake, building its own mythical blockchain forked off EOS.IO. He adds that the chain, currently in testnet, is fully EVM compatible in anticipation of Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake.

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Cybersecurity Protocol Naoris Raises $11.5M to Build Decentralized Proof-of-Security Consensus Mechanism

Bitcoin whale Tim Draper was one of the lead investors in the round.

Naoris hopes to create a decentralized proof-of-security consensus mechanism by the end of 2022. (jaydeep/Pixabay)

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