Why Vitalik Buterin is bullish on ZK coins
|- Vitalik Buterin addresses Ethereum’s interaction with ZK EVMs, technical challenges, trade-offs, and solutions for creating a multi-client ecosystem.
- The Ethereum co-founder believes the ZK ecosystem could evolve to become essential to the altcoin’s Layer 1 security.
- The ZK coins narrative becomes relevant with Vitalik’s comments on its importance in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, addressed technical challenges involving security and scalability on the altcoin’s blockchain in a recent blog post. Buterin explained how Zero Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) protocols could help enhance Layer 1 security in the long term.
Buterin’s comments indicate ZK projects and their native tokens could witness a boost in utility in the short-term and likely fuel a bullish sentiment among holders.
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Vitalik Buterin sheds light on ZK rollups and their importance in Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum co-founder, explained how Ethereum’s multi-client philosophy interacts with ZK EVMs. Buterin explains the technical challenges, trade-offs and potential solutions in creating a multi-client ecosystem.
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?https://t.co/MPpTPNhldR
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 31, 2023
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?https://t.co/MPpTPNhldR
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 31, 2023
The Ethereum co-founder believes that ZK-EVMs will become an essential part of Ethereum’s Layer 1 security and verification process in the future. ZK technology allows developers to prove the authenticity of a transaction or message without revealing any additional information. Thus making ZK protocols key to Ethereum’s ecosystem.
ZK coins narrative heats up
Leading ZK coins like Polygon (MATIC), ImmutableX (IMX), Loopring (LRC) and Zcash (ZEC) have yielded gains to holders over the past week. With the ZK coins narrative heating up, tokens of key projects in the ecosystem are rallying.
ZK coins
Buterin’s comments on ZK coins could fuel the narrative and likely a bullish sentiment among holders of ZK tokens like MATIC, IMX, LRC, ZEC and AZERO.
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