During the @VitalikButerin's ZK talk on day 1 of Devcon, @VitalikButerin emphasized that ZK is the preferred scaling method for blockchain. The censorship-resistant feature that blockchain provides sacrificed ‘scalability’ and ‘privacy:’ this is where ZK-SNARKs fit in.
#ZKP is getting lots of traction from VCs. VCs are paying more attention to ZKP projects, making large investments in ZKP technology with high expectations of its future. A ZKP project can raise $10m, and many of the ZKP projects have a valuation of more than $100m.
The development of ZKP in the blockchain is still in its early stage. Due to the difficulty of development, most ZK-based projects are in their research and development phase and haven’t launched their mainnet or token yet.
ZKtech has a wide use case, contributing to a new paradigm. In terms of scalability, It fundamentally enhances scalability and reduces cost in the blockchain, with one node doing computation and the others needing to verify computation results instead of doing repeat computation.
In an interview with PAnews, @shumochu mentioned that ZKP and TEE are the two most compelling technologies currently that could provide privacy in the blockchain. However, we believe TEE is unsuitable since it couldn’t fundamentally offer privacy in a decentralized environment.
Manta designed a privacy-by-default crypto asset class called zkAsset. (1) zkAssets support fungible and NFTs to transfer to Manta. Public assets could be converted to private zkAssets. (2) Devs could build zkApps on Manta and own native crypto assets with privacy by default.
ZKP is getting lots of traction from VCs, and VCs are optimistic that there will be ZK projects that are valued at billions of dollars or even ten billion in the future. However, there will be an information gap due to the relatively high entry barrier to learning ZK.
Do you think the technology of ZK+L2 or ZK+privacy will significantly impact L2 and all the privacy projects? Why?
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The recent illicit DDoS attack has temporarily impacted gas fees. Any gas payments >0.001 ETH on Manta Pacific from 9:30 UTC on Jan 18, 2024 (the time of TGE) to 4:30 UTC on Jan 20, 2024 will be reimbursed to users.
On January 18, 2024, at 9:30AM UTC, Manta Pacific experienced an illicit DDoS attack that severely impeded access to its RPCs. Manta Network is working with authorities and various legal council to take action as a next step against this illegal attack.
Meanwhile, users found themselves in an unusual situation where gas prices were driven up due to massive user interaction from pending transactions during the illicit DDoS attack. As a result, users interacting with the chain saw gas fees significantly higher than normal.
Shielding transactions with Mantapay requires a #zkaddress. This should not be confused with the Manta Network address. What are the differences?
Substrate addresses store and manage assets on the @Polkadot and @kusamanetwork ecosystems. Transactions are recorded on a public ledger.
Manta Network is a project built on Substrate; once @MantaNetwork launches its parachain, you can generate and manage your Manta Network address on Substrate.
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the environment in which Ethereum accounts and smart contracts operate. It is the rule for calculating new, valid states from one block to another in Ethereum.
“State” is an important concept in Ethereum. State is the current Merkle Patricia Tree (MPT) data structure in Ethereum that allows us to trace transaction information from the current block back to the Genesis block.