{"id":37679,"date":"2022-10-17T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=37679"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:10:47","slug":"arbitrum-boss-brushes-off-start-of-its-first-ever-mainnet-zkevm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/arbitrum-boss-brushes-off-start-of-its-first-ever-mainnet-zkevm\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrum Boss Brushes-off Start of Its First Ever Mainnet zkEVM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-steven-goldfeder-one-of-the-people-who-started-arbitrum-has-said-that-a-zkevm-is-not-12-days-away-from-mainnet\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Steven+Goldfeder&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steven Goldfeder<\/a>, one of the people who started Arbitrum, has said that a zkEVM is &#8220;not 12 days away from mainnet.&#8221;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-82.png\" alt=\"Arbitrum Boss Brushes-off Start of Its Initial Mainnet zkEVM\" class=\"wp-image-37681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-82.png 720w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-82-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-82-150x112.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Arbitrum Boss Brushes-off Start of Its First Ever Mainnet zkEVM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The co-founder of OffChain Labs, the company behind the layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum, has spoken out against companies that are marketing the launch of products built on an upcoming zkEVM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/polygon-to-unveil-new-public-testnet-for-hermez.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zkEVMs<\/a> are a type of zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup that involves moving smart contracts from one <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/top-16-blockchain-related-career-paths-in-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blockchain <\/a>to another without changing the rules or code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several companies have said that a zkEVM will be ready on <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/on-the-ethereum-mainnet-starknet-is-now-available-for-dapp-deployment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mainnet<\/a> before the end of the month. But Steven Goldfeder, one of the co-founders of OffChain Labs, said that this isn't true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goldfeder wrote on Twitter, &#8220;We are NOT 12 days away from the first zkEVM on mainnet in any meaningful way.&#8221; &#8220;Anyone who spreads this story is doing the community a disservice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many teams are making steady progress, but we are by no means ready for prime time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One team says that &#8220;the first product-ready Layer 2 EVM compatible zkRollup will be ready in 12 days.&#8221; If you read the fine print, though, you'll see that their testnet still doesn't have zk-proofs or security audits turned on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offchain Labs just bought <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-50.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prysmatic Labs<\/a>, which was one of the main engineering teams that helped Ethereum switch to proof-of-stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Goldfeder, one of the people who started Arbitrum, has said that a zkEVM is &#8220;not 12 days away from mainnet.&#8221; The co-founder of OffChain Labs, the company behind the layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum, has spoken out against companies that are marketing the launch of products built on an upcoming zkEVM. zkEVMs are a type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":37681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4579,2102,11770],"class_list":["post-37679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arbitrum","tag-mainnet","tag-offchain-labs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-82.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}