The Future of zkEVM, Why it needs time to Evolve
summary
Two teams report shipping ZK-EVM mainnets and testnets with measurable traction and growing costs and complexity: 400,000 unique addresses, 700,000 proofs and millions of transactions show the stacks work at scale but proofs demand large memory and on-chain data keeps fees high. Immediate work focuses on proof optimizations, bridging and UX (account abstraction), adopting EIP-4844 reduces fees for data availability, and integrating POS-to-L2 routing and hardware acceleration to cut proving costs 3–5x.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00zkEVM future intro
- 1:33Speakers and projects
- 3:18Milestones and challenges
- 6:52zkEVM design approaches
- 9:44Proof complexity and devX
- 11:30Post-mainnet challenges
- 14:43Polygon’s vision and ecosystem
- 18:37DevX and EVM compatibility
- 20:01Future protocol changes and developer considerations
- 24:20Onboarding and UX focus
- 26:31Multi-decade journey and protocol evolution
- 27:56Ethereum values in zkEVM
- 30:06Community and open-source
- 31:53Polygon’s decentralization
- 33:17Q&A
