Polygoncrypto and Vitalik Buterin’s message
The New Mainnet for Crypto Gaming, Polygon zkEVM, was launched with a special guest. And actually first transaction was sent by Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin and hides a message from him.
Polygon launches crypto game mainnet and invites Buterin to make first transaction
The heralded mainnet dedicated to crypto gaming, Polygon zkEVM, has been launched and to mark the occasion Vitalik Buterin has been invited to make the first transaction, with a hidden message.
Here is the announcement from Polygon’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwalwho shared it on the social network of crypto lovers, Twitter:
.@VitalikButerin made the symbolic first ever transaction @0xPolygon #zkEVM and it has a message
“Millions of Limitations for Man, Unlimited Scalability for Mankind”
Goosebumps!! pic.twitter.com/Ue0C1CuDTd
— Sandeep Nailwal | sandeep. polygon 💜 (@sandeepnailwal) March 27, 2023
Essentially, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin couldn’t say no to the sidechain developers’ invitation to be the first to make the very first transaction of the new Polygon zkEVM mainnet Polygon.
Not only that, Buterin also included in the transaction a hidden message converted to hexadecimal code, which he quotes as follows:
“A few million limitations for man, unlimited scalability for humanity”
The Polygon zkEVM network for crypto games and the 69042 gas limit imposed by Buterin
Buterin also repeatedly wanted to put Ethereum network transaction gas limit of 69,042. This move caused Polygon’s Head of Growth, Leon Sternto publicly describe him as a “man of culture”.
.@VitalikButerin sent the transaction on Polygon zkEVM
He is a man of culture. Make sure the gas limit is 69042 pic.twitter.com/Eh0ebi7giA
— collected.polygon | polygon zkEVM March 27 (@sourcex44) March 27, 2023
It is likely that Buterin chose the number 69042 to refer to one meme number (69) and almost another (420).
The collaboration with Immutable
The zkEVM network was created by Polygon together with Immutableand is a new platform dedicated to developers in the crypto world.
The new platform, announced last week, is a real breakthrough in blockchain-based gaming, integrating the use of ZK technology that will serve to accelerate the development of Web3 games.
Ethereum’s two layer 2s, Polygon and Immutable, have merged into zkEVM specifically to enable game developers to have an unprecedented building experience on Ethereum. All this could only be made even more official through Buterin’s involvement at the time of the launch.
The result of the partnership, zkEVM, combines zero-knowledge summaries – which collects lots of transactions and runs these tests on Ethereum – with full compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
This means that it is a built-in extension of Ethereum and that the smart contracts, which contain the code that drives the decentralized protocols and software, can be easily transferred over the zkEVM network.
Polygon (MATIC) crypto dumps in the last seven days
Despite the resounding launch of zkEVM, also referred to as “the holy grail of scalability for blockchains,” The Polygon (MATIC) crypto doesn’t seem to reflect that success.
And indeed, MATIC has experienced one price dump in the last 7 days, soon after zkEVM’s announcement. From $1.16 last Tuesday, today MATIC is worth $1.05.
This is no big deal if you look at MATIC’s price chart from previous weeks. The price started at $0.96 on March 9, and reached $1.24 over the next five days.
The ninth crypto by market capitalization has a dominance of 0.84% over the entire cryptocurrency market.
