Today we're excited to announce Plonky2, our groundbreaking proof system and a major milestone for zero-knowledge cryptography and Ethereum scaling 💜💫

Thank you to the ZK and crypto communities for your support. It was amazing to see the pioneers of ZK scaling, the inventors of STARKs and PLONK (the foundation of our work, including Plonky2), speak out to uphold the open source ethos.

For more on the history of and the ideas informing the development of Plonky2 and Starky, see this post:

It’s crucial that we, as a crypto community, call out failures to embody the values that make this space great. We have to continue to incentivize the collaborative spirit of open-source development. If we fail to do so, we’ll be no better than the Web2 monopolies.

Matter Labs also made misleading claims about Plonky2’s performance relative to Boojum and failed to give Polygon Labs team members appropriate credit for specific innovations. Crypto’s many good-faith open source developers deserve better.

Significant parts of the recently released Boojum library–developed by Matter Labs, the team behind @zkSync–are copy-pasted from the Plonky2 proving system developed by Polygon Labs. Plonky2 is open source, but Matter Labs did not give appropriate attribution.

Crypto runs on the open source ethos. When projects don’t follow it, the ecosystem suffers. We were disappointed to see that @zksync copied our code without attribution and made misleading claims about the original work, so we wrote this post.

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