In our post back in October, we shared our commitment to furthering open-source ZK research. Since then, we’ve made tremendous progress on 2 major fronts: zkTree and… today, we’re excited to introduce zkMint, Polymer’s solution that optimizes IBC across all major chains. Context and Background In our most recent article, we demonstrated how…

The State of Interoperability is Broken Blockchain interoperability is broken across the ecosystem. Protocol fragmentation, multi-sig bridging, and centralized oracles are all key issues that have yet to be effectively addressed. Since 2020 DeFi Summer, the industry has further fragmented and increased developer friction with an ever increasing number of competing standards and solutions. Comparing interoperability…

A deeper dive into plonky2 and recursion. — This is the second part in our series on how to write proofs using plonky2. In part I, we went over some basics and a toy non-recursive example of how to provide a mathematical mfunction. Today we’ll cover how to write your own circuit and recursively compose individual plonky2 proofs…

Prerequisites: you should have a basic understanding of zero-knowledge proofs and zkSNARKs. It’s helpful to have a general understanding of how they work so that you understand bottlenecks such as proof generating time. If you don’t know much about how zk-proofs/SNARKs work, there’s some great lectures from Dan Boneh here. About Recursive zk proofs …

As Polymer Labs grows, we are evermore dedicated to our vision of an interconnected and trustless future. We believe that the best way to achieve this is through Zero Knowledge proofs (ZK-IBC). Following continuous research and development, our team has found the qualities inherent to ZKPs to be the best…

Overview of IBC After covering the basics of IBC in our previous article, this piece will take a deeper dive into the protocol. The following images show a high-level representation of how the IBC core module forms the IBC-Go module.

TLDR; Blockchains are immutable, decentralized data storage systems. Blockchains have grown dramatically over recent years, but there is no standard way to communicate across chains. Polymer Chain provides a seamless way to provide cross chain communication by utilizing IBC to connect chains even when they may not support IBC natively. What are Blockchains, and what’s all the fuss about? …

Polymer Labs is excited to co-develop the future of interoperability infrastructure with Celestia. Over the past few years, we have observed multiple L1 and L2 blockchains launch and expand. Polymer believes that innovations in foundational infrastructure will be more directed towards not only a multichain future but also towards enabling…

Polymer Labs is excited to announce its $3.6M Seed Round. The round was co-led by Distributed Global and North Island Ventures and included participation by Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Ignite (formerly Tendermint), Advanced Blockchain AG, The LAO, Taureon, Wintermute Trading, Longhash Ventures, Signum, UOB Venture Management, and angels including…