Matter Labs, the principle growth agency behind the layer-2 community ZKsync, has launched a brand new roadmap referred to as ZKsync 3.0, geared toward making the ecosystem extra interconnected – together with a brand new “Elastic Chain” that considerably resembles rival Polygon’s AggLayer, launched earlier this 12 months.
On the core of ZKsync “3.0” is the v24 improve, launched June 7, turning “ZKsync from a single ZK chain into an Elastic Chain,” the Matter Labs group wrote in a weblog publish shared with CoinDesk.
This Elastic Chain consists of a number of chains within the ZKsync ecosystem, however customers will really feel like they’re utilizing a single chain, based on the group.
Final 12 months, Matter Labs final 12 months launched their ZK Stack, which is a toolkit that permits builders to construct their very own blockchain on ZKsync’s know-how. Basically, these customized chains would all be interconnected by the Elastic Chain.
“The Elastic Chain is an infinitely extensible community of ZK chains (rollups, validiums and volitions), secured by math and seamlessly interoperable below uniform intuitive UX,” Matter Labs wrote.
The idea is a part of a brand new development in blockchain geared toward making interoperability inside totally different ecosystems extra seamless for customers. Matter Labs’ competitor, Polygon, has the same idea that they launched in January, referred to as the “AggLayer.”
The brand new Elastic Chain can be composed of three core parts, based on Matter Labs.
The primary element consists of the “Native Token Vault” and “Shared Router,” which is on the core of the community.
“Applied as a collection of sensible contracts on Ethereum, these parts are chargeable for managing the state of the community, dealing with chain registrations,” the group wrote.
The second element is their ZK Gateway, which is a chunk of middleware that connects the Ethereum blockchain to ZKsync’s ZK chains, that permits for interoperability between the totally different chains within the ZK sync ecosystem.
“Collectively, these core parts make sure that ZK chains can work together and transact with one another effectively, inheriting the safety of Ethereum, and forming a community that may scale horizontally with out compromising the core properties that make public blockchains so highly effective,” Matter Labs wrote.
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