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Polygon is behind a lot of the ZK-SNARK and ZK-STARK research, and I believe they have several Layer 2s in development based on that technology (as well as the separate PoS network, Polygon, which is checkpointed to the mainnet).

I'm surprised they only have 500 employees to be honest, but there's a good chance a lot of the work in the space is done in collaboration with other companies and open source contributors

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Here's an open ZK benchmark project that Polygon Miden (their primary STARK product) is a part of: https://github.com/delendum-xyz/zk-benchmarking

They are going big on scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge (or more accurately, succinct but not necessarily zero-knowledge) proofs. I used to work for one of their competitors also in that project, but all the Polygon people I've talked to on the ZK side are very sharp.

The goal is faster and cheaper transactions but still secure? This is becoming an arduous march for Ethereum.

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