Several Ethereum-related projects — including StarkWare, Polyhedra, and Polygon — condemned Matter Labs’ efforts to trademark “zero-knowledge” as its intellectual property in a May 30 joint statement.
The statement was signed by notable industry figures, including Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, Polyhedra Network co-founder Tiancheng Xie, and Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser.
‘ZK is a public good’
Zero Knowledge (ZK) blockchains have gained wide popularity as a solution that enhances developers’ security and scalability. By leveraging the robust security of existing layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum, ZK blockchains allow decentralized applications (dApps) to achieve higher throughput and faster transactions.
These blockchains protect users’ personal information by keeping it off-chain and reduce costs for end-users through batched transaction publishing.
Industry experts assert that “ZK is a public good that
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