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Polygon zkEVM Upgrade Cuts Prover Costs 73% as Type-1 Equivalence Unlocks Full Ethereum Tooling
Proofs got cheap, and builders noticed. Polygon pushed a major zkEVM release that shifts to Type-1 equivalence and a new prover pipeline, trimming proof cost by 73% per block. Gas to verify on L1 fell to roughly $0.003 per transaction at current batch sizes, and block time dropped to 2.5 seconds. The chain now runs the exact Ethereum opcode set, so devs can copy contracts, tools, and audits without edits.
Why cost fell
The team moved to a Plonky3-based recursion and a GPU-parallel witness build
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