Polygon's zkEVM protocol (MATIC) was activated on March 27 on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. According to anúncio, Polygon zkEVM is now also fully open source under an AGPL v3 license.
“Polygon zkEVM was built in public from the ground up. The testnet for Polygon zkEVM was open to anyone, and the source code is available for all to see.
Today, Polygon Labs is pleased to announce that Polygon zkEVM has not only released Mainnet Beta, but is also fully open source under an AGPL v3 license.”
The text explains that this means Polygon zkEVM will not own it and developers will have access to the repositories to modify, use and distribute as they see fit.
"As an increasing number of ZK-rollups are announced, the question of how to license ZK software, which Polygon Labs has addressed in the past, will only become more pressing."
Today, Polygon Labs is announcing that Polygon zkEVM is fully open-source. Every single component is licensed with AGPL v3, including the zkProver, which is where all of the ZK magic happens 🪄
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— Polygon (labs) (@0xPolygonLabs) March 27, 2023
It is worth remembering that ConsenSys, a Blockchain development company, scheduled for March 28th to start a public test of zkEVM, which is compatible with Ethereum.
In its release, ConsenSys highlighted that over the past four years, its protocol teams have helped shape and deliver updates to Layer 1 Ethereum, and during that time, ConsenSys R&D has designed the Layer 2 infrastructure to unlock seamless execution. scale confidence.
