Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the blockchain platform Polygon, commented via his Twitter page about the fallacies and confusions arising on Polygon’s EVM-Equivalent. He responded to the chain of messages between Toghrul Maharramov and Brendan Farmer, in which both of them argued about Polygon’s implementation of zkEVM.
On April 1, 2023, Nailwal shared a Twitter thread quoting “hope this puts to rest this unnecessary game of definitions”:
On March 31, the official Twitter page of Polygon was updated with a post claiming “Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta IS EVM-equivalent”. The platform also provided a detailed explanation of how zkEVM is equivalent to EVM.
Earlier, Toghrul Maharramov, a Senior Researcher at the EVM-Equivalent zk-Rollup, Scroll, commented on July 22, 2022, that “Polygon zkEVM is not a zkEVM”, when Mihailo Bjelic, Polygon’s co-founder shared the specifications of zkEVM.
Interestingly, Polygon’s co-founder Brendan Farmer, came up with a detailed sketch of the platform’s EVM-Equivalent zkEVM, subsequent to the platform’s recent tweet. He claimed:
Following the series of threads from Farmer, Maharramov clarified the reasons why he claimed that “Polygon’s implementation is not a zkEVM”:
Significantly, he noted that there was no zkEVM type classification earlier; it was only introduced by the Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
Nonetheless, after a series of discussions, the researcher tweeted admitting Polygon’s definition of zkEVM, commenting:
In response to Maharramov’s final tweet, Nailwal shared his happiness in viewing “people accepting their mistake, conceding and coming around”.
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