The ZkEVM Is Here | Alex Gluchowski Of ZkSync

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zkEVM is here! Alex Gluchowski, CEO & Co-Founder of Matter Labs and of zkSync is here to talk about the huge accomplishment he and his team brought to market this past week. This is the first EVM-compatible ZK Rollup on Ethereum’s testnet!

Is this the endgame of blockchain scalability? How were Alex and his team able to bring this to market way sooner than expected? Why is this important and a monumental leap forward for the space? Find out the answers to these questions and much more on this week’s State of the Nation with Ryan and David!

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—— Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 6:00 Alex from Matter Labs 9:51 What is a zkEVM? 15:57 The Breakthrough 19:08 zkSync 2.0 Public Testnet 24:04 The User Experience 29:37 Developer Tooling 32:48 Why zkRollups? 37:22 Security, Centralization, Trust 41:51 Justin Drake’s Question 46:33 The Roadmap 50:30 Wen Mainnet? 53:15 Wen Token? 58:51 zkDAO 1:00:52 Ukraine 1:06:57 Crypto’s Impact in Ukraine 1:11:00 Closing & Disclaimers

—— Resources:

UkraineDAO https://twitter.com/Ukraine_DAO?s=20&t=k_QiuIA3ZukqUPd9gy–LA

Alex Gluchowski on Twitter https://twitter.com/gluk64

zkSync on Twitter https://twitter.com/zksync

zkDAO https://twitter.com/zkdao_official?s=20&t=9HO7KyxvPEwqBhAo6SgbEA

zkSync’s Website zksync.io

zkSync 2.0: Public Testnet is Live! https://matterlabs.medium.com/zksync-2-0-public-testnet-is-live-de870ba9632a

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