Polygon’s New ZK Proving System, ‘Plonky3,’ Comes as Open-Source Toolkit

The company’s previous proving system, Plonky2, was introduced in 2022 as “a single proving system focused on lightning-fast recursion by optimizing for hardware,” Polygon wrote in the press release, whereas Polygon Plonky3 is an “open-source toolkit that empowers ZK developers to build their own” virtual machines based on ZK cryptography.