Polygon Launches Polygon Bridge For Polygon zkEVM

Polygon, a scaling solution for Ethereum, has launched its zero-knowledge proof-based network, Polygon zkEVM, which offers the same user experience as its Polygon PoS bridge. The launch aims to offer a solution to Ethereum’s rising gas fees and slow transaction times.

Introducing Polygon Bridge to Polygon #zkEVM

👉🏽 Better Bridge
👉🏽 ‍Fast Finality
👉🏽 Asset Support
👉🏽 No Mapping Required

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Polygon Bridge for zkEVM

The Polygon Bridge for zkEVM uses smart contracts, ensuring security and fast finality for transactions on the platform. Users can transact within the rollup with fast finality and withdraw funds on Ethereum in 30-60 minutes in most cases. The bridge also supports most popular assets, including ERC-20 tokens and the extended features of ERC-777 tokens.

One of the significant improvements of the bridge is that there is no mapping required. Once a user triggers the bridging transaction, the token being bridged is automatically mapped. This saves time and effort for users, compared to other chains that require users to map tokens before bridging.

The new bridge has a better user experience, incorporating feedback from the community. It features a more visible progress bar, transaction history, and a recent transaction panel with color-coded completion status, time estimates for pending transactions, and the ability to filter.

Mainnet Beta

After months of testing, Polygon zkEVM launched on March 27 as Mainnet Beta. It is permissionless, open-source, and public, allowing anyone to transact and build. An impressive array of teams is already building on the Mainnet Beta, including premier dApps such as Lens and Balancer, blue-chip gaming projects such as Midnight Society and Oath of Peak, and trusted infrastructure providers such as ANKR, Alchemy, Sequence, and The Graph.

Polygon is known for its Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum, and the launch of Polygon zkEVM offers an alternative to Ethereum’s rising gas fees and slow transaction times. With the same user experience as its Polygon PoS bridge and no mapping required, Polygon zkEVM is poised to be a game-changer in the blockchain industry.