Polygon Announces Launch of the Bridge for the ZkEVM

In a statement, Polygon said that Polygon Bridge for Polygon zkEVM is now available. The update occurs one month after the zero-knowledge rollup was made available on Mainnet Beta.

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Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of Ethereum, made the symbolic first transaction on the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta.

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The Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta is intended to be a general-purpose scaling protocol for Ethereum that gives developers the ability to build on it with functionality that is similar to Ethereum’s without changing languages or tooling.

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