The L2 race continues – The day after long-awaited Arbitrum airdrop, it’s the turn of another layer 2 to make people talk about it. Indeed, zkSync has just announced the launch of the mainnet of zkSync Eraeffectively revealing its zkEVM.
New era for zkSync: Era deployed on mainnet
Just over a month ago, the teams of zkSync had announced theopening your zkEVM via zkSync Era. However, this pre-launch only targeted developers. Indeed, the latter were thus able to deploy their protocols on the mainnet of zkSync.
Now it’s the turn of the users. On March 24, zkSync teams announced “zkSync Era Mainnet Alpha”namely the opening for all of their new second layer solution:
“zkSync Era Mainnet Alpha is now open to all users. Developers, projects and users can now experience the power of zkEVM. »
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Safety first
Before opening their doors to the general public, the zkSync teams made sure of the robustness of their system. In fact, they spent $3.8 million in the securing from zkSync Era, realizing:
- 7 independent audits;
- 3 internal audits;
- 2 public security competitions;
- A program of bug bounty ;
- Opening the source code of zkSync Era.
So many actions that ensured the stability and security of the network upon the arrival of users. In addition, the protocols took advantage of a month on the network before the arrival of the users to finalize the final details.
However, zkSync reminds that this is only a alpha release. This will allow them to oversee the network during this first launch phase. To do this, the teams will actively monitor the network at all levels to ensure that everything is going as planned.
A vision: hyperscalability
For several months, zkSync has been describing its scalability ambitions to us. With the opening of zkSync Era, these ambitions can now be realized.
“zkSync Era is designed to be future-proof. We’ve made conscious design choices that will allow developers to leverage features that will deliver benefits, such as low-cost privacy, unlimited growth, complex use cases, and magical UI. »
Statement of zkSync
To achieve this, zkSync has focused on several features dedicated to mass adoption. We find in particular theaccount abstractionwhich takes the headache out of storing private keys.
Of course, zkSync Era also has an important data compressionthe cornerstone of an efficient and inexpensive publication of states on Ethereum.
Now, many observers are considering a cash migration from Arbitrum to zkSync, hoping for an airdrop.
In this race for layer 2, zk-Sync is not alone. The Starknet network also continues to grow. In fact, the teams starware recently announced the deployment of Cairo 1.0 on the testnet.
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