Polygon Announces Production Readiness of Its Plonky3 ZK Proving Technology

Polygon revealed that its new zero-knowledge (ZK) proving system, Plonky3, is ready for use. The company revealed that the open-source software is audited and secure for developers to integrate.

It stated in its announcement, “Today, researchers at Polygon Labs are excited to announce that Polygon Plonky3, the next generation of ZK proving systems, is production ready and open-source licensed under MIT/Apache.”

Plonky3 is a proving mechanism that lets blockchains and applications operating on ZK technology to prove transactions and states using robust cryptography. Polygon’s efforts in scaling up the Ethereum ecosystem have occurred due to ZK technology, with its layer 2 rollup chain, Polygon zkEVM, offering tremendous throughput and cheap gas fees for developers and end-users to leverage.

Moreover, Plonky3 brings a modular approach to building scalable blockchain infrastructure, which developers will find easy to integrate into their applications.

Polygon elaborated on the technology’s modularity, “One effect of this modularity is more innovation. Polygon Plonky3 has already been adopted by projects like Valida and Succinct Labs’ SP1. Indirectly, that means every subsequent project that builds with these zkVMs is building on Plonky3, too.”

Moreover, Plonky3 allows developers to choose between increasing computation speeds and proof sizes. With that, they can tailor applications to provide high scalability based on these factors. “A developer that requires speed would configure Polygon Plonky3 completely differently than a developer that requires the smallest proof size,” Polygon said.

Furthermore, Plonky3’s upgrade from the previously launched Plonky2 comes from its modularity, allowing developers to configure the proving mechanism to their builds. Plonky2, although a game changer in its own right, was less flexible.

“Whereas Plonky2 was a single proving system focused on lightning-fast recursion by optimizing for hardware, Polygon Plonky3 is an open source toolkit that empowers ZK developers to build their own zkVMs or zkEVMs.”

This launch signifies Polygon’s commitment to bringing novel ZK products to the decentralized space, allowing developers to harness these implementations and build the next generation of dApps alongside Polygon. “Polygon Plonky3 is a continuation of Polygon Labs’ broader commitment to open-source ZK-powered technology as the only way to achieve verifiable off-chain computation.”