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David Schwartz & Jordi Baylina: Polygon zkEVM – From Circuits to Mainnet - Part 1

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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Ethereum's Layer Two Trust Model

We are in the ZKEDM, you are basically changing the trust model. We have this kind of layer two execution, let's say blockchain, that's doing off-chain processing of Ethereum, like transactions. But here, instead of having a consensus protocol that provides the security to the users, we rely on the layer one security to verify some kind of validity proofs That are created into this layer two. And this value, the proof is kind of the new model of trust. This enables to compress in some way, you get a lot of transactions that are proven by a succinct, a small proof. So from the user perspective, there is nothing else. If we check internally and

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