Jordi Baylina, co-founder of the Ethereum L2 network Polygon, announced yesterday (18) through the X platform that he and the Polygon zkEVM core team have separated from Polygon Labs and established a new company to develop a new project called Zisk, specializing in low-latency, open-source zkVM verification technology. (Synopsis: The third person of Polygon's core team left: co-founder Mihailo Bjelic left) (Background supplement: Polygon executives self-detonated: 90% of public chains will ask for airdrops from ecological projects, EigenLayer is not a case) Ethereum L2 network Polygon co-founder Jordi Baylina announced through the X platform yesterday (18) that he and Polygon zkEVM core team have separated Polygon Labs, a new Swiss company SilentSig GmbH, focuses on a new project called Zisk, specializing in low-latency, open-source zkVM validation technology. The Polygon Foundation also revealed that it will shift its development focus back to Polygon PoS and the cross-chain aggregation protocol AggLayer to find new breakthroughs in the fierce Layer2 competition. Me, together with a core team of 7 developers, just spun off from Polygon to continue the ZisK project as an independent initiative. I’ll remain co-founder and advisor at Polygon, but my main focus now shifts to @ziskvm. Excited for this new era in the blockchain journey — we... — Jordi Baylina – baylina.eth (@jbaylina) June 18, 2025 Zisk locks zkVM after independence According to public information, Polygon zkEVM The team was incubated within Polygon Labs in May 2024 and spun off on June 13 this year. The agreement states that all intellectual property rights to zkEVM and approximately 40 engineers have been transferred to SilentSig GmbH, which is wholly owned by Baylina. In the future, Zisk will focus on efficient zero-knowledge proofs, aiming to reduce verification delays and be fully open source, allowing developers to quickly verify transactions on different chains. Key features include: High performance and low latency: ZisK uses zkVM execution speed of 1.5GHz and achieves efficient performance through highly parallel proof-generated and optimized GPU code. Based on RISC-V 64: ZisK is built on the RISC-V 64 architecture, an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) known for its simplicity and scalability. Open source and modular design: ZisK is completely open source, including GPU code, under the MIT/Apache 2.0 license. This means that anyone is free to use, modify, and integrate into their own infrastructure. Polygon adjusts the front: PoS and AggLayer become protagonists Last week, when co-founder Sandeep Nailwal took over as CEO of the Polygon Foundation, he announced the gradual closure of the zkEVM chain, which has been sluggish in usage. According to Ainvest, the chain is losing $1 million a year and has not yet supported the latest innovations such as EIP-4844, which is increasing maintenance costs. At the same time, competing products such as Optimism and Arbitrum continue to put pressure on compatibility and security, forcing the foundation to reallocate resources. The new version of the roadmap shows that Polygon PoS will optimize the core scenarios of stablecoin payment and RWA tokenization in the future, and set a target of 100,000 TPS; AggLayer is responsible for cross-chain settlement and liquidity integration, and v0.3 is expected to go live on June 30, 2025. The Foundation's move is intended to strengthen the competitiveness of the mainnet while making zero-knowledge research more flexible through Zisk, but the challenge is not small. Related reports Justin Sun wants TRON to be listed in the United States! TRON reverse merger SRM rapid IPO, Trump also has a share? Aave detonated the 1.3 billion magnesium "Polygon withdrawal chain" crisis, Polygon founder choked: Engaging in monopoly is not in line with the spirit of web3 "Pokémon GO" sold! Scopely, which invested in Polygon and Animoca, threw a $3.5 billion acquisition to accelerate the promotion of GameFi. 〈Polygon leads zkEVM team independent portal to launch a new zero-knowledge proof project What are the characteristics of Zisk? This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media".
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Jordi Baylina, co-founder of the Ethereum L2 network Polygon, announced yesterday (18) through the X platform that he and the Polygon zkEVM core team have separated from Polygon Labs and established a new company to develop a new project called Zisk, specializing in low-latency, open-source zkVM verification technology. (Synopsis: The third person of Polygon's core team left: co-founder Mihailo Bjelic left) (Background supplement: Polygon executives self-detonated: 90% of public chains will ask for airdrops from ecological projects, EigenLayer is not a case) Ethereum L2 network Polygon co-founder Jordi Baylina announced through the X platform yesterday (18) that he and Polygon zkEVM core team have separated Polygon Labs, a new Swiss company SilentSig GmbH, focuses on a new project called Zisk, specializing in low-latency, open-source zkVM validation technology. The Polygon Foundation also revealed that it will shift its development focus back to Polygon PoS and the cross-chain aggregation protocol AggLayer to find new breakthroughs in the fierce Layer2 competition. Me, together with a core team of 7 developers, just spun off from Polygon to continue the ZisK project as an independent initiative. I’ll remain co-founder and advisor at Polygon, but my main focus now shifts to @ziskvm. Excited for this new era in the blockchain journey — we... — Jordi Baylina – baylina.eth (@jbaylina) June 18, 2025 Zisk locks zkVM after independence According to public information, Polygon zkEVM The team was incubated within Polygon Labs in May 2024 and spun off on June 13 this year. The agreement states that all intellectual property rights to zkEVM and approximately 40 engineers have been transferred to SilentSig GmbH, which is wholly owned by Baylina. In the future, Zisk will focus on efficient zero-knowledge proofs, aiming to reduce verification delays and be fully open source, allowing developers to quickly verify transactions on different chains. Key features include: High performance and low latency: ZisK uses zkVM execution speed of 1.5GHz and achieves efficient performance through highly parallel proof-generated and optimized GPU code. Based on RISC-V 64: ZisK is built on the RISC-V 64 architecture, an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) known for its simplicity and scalability. Open source and modular design: ZisK is completely open source, including GPU code, under the MIT/Apache 2.0 license. This means that anyone is free to use, modify, and integrate into their own infrastructure. Polygon adjusts the front: PoS and AggLayer become protagonists Last week, when co-founder Sandeep Nailwal took over as CEO of the Polygon Foundation, he announced the gradual closure of the zkEVM chain, which has been sluggish in usage. According to Ainvest, the chain is losing $1 million a year and has not yet supported the latest innovations such as EIP-4844, which is increasing maintenance costs. At the same time, competing products such as Optimism and Arbitrum continue to put pressure on compatibility and security, forcing the foundation to reallocate resources. The new version of the roadmap shows that Polygon PoS will optimize the core scenarios of stablecoin payment and RWA tokenization in the future, and set a target of 100,000 TPS; AggLayer is responsible for cross-chain settlement and liquidity integration, and v0.3 is expected to go live on June 30, 2025. The Foundation's move is intended to strengthen the competitiveness of the mainnet while making zero-knowledge research more flexible through Zisk, but the challenge is not small. Related reports Justin Sun wants TRON to be listed in the United States! TRON reverse merger SRM rapid IPO, Trump also has a share? Aave detonated the 1.3 billion magnesium "Polygon withdrawal chain" crisis, Polygon founder choked: Engaging in monopoly is not in line with the spirit of web3 "Pokémon GO" sold! Scopely, which invested in Polygon and Animoca, threw a $3.5 billion acquisition to accelerate the promotion of GameFi. 〈Polygon leads zkEVM team independent portal to launch a new zero-knowledge proof project What are the characteristics of Zisk? This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media".