Event Opening and Welcome
summary
Polygon zkEVM launches as an EVM‑equivalent ZK rollup with a live mainnet beta launch, claiming Ethereum L1 security plus higher throughput and lower costs; the team reports practical provers running on commodity AWS instances at $1.9/hr prover on commodity AWS and cites engineering primitives like Goldilocks Fields, Starky and Plonky2 as breakthroughs. Over 10,000 people tune in, the system is released to mainnet beta, and a roadmap toward EVM equivalence type‑2 and further TPS/cost gains follows.
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