Polygon Co-Founder Spins Off zkVM Team to Launch ZisK - Unchained

Polygon co-founder Jordi Baylina has spun off from Polygon to launch ZisK, an independent project focused on advancing zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) technology.

The core team behind Polygon’s zkEVM – the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine – has moved with Baylina to this new venture, transferring all related intellectual property and code to SilentSig Switzerland GmbH, a company wholly owned by Baylina.

ZisK’s mission is to develop a low-latency, open-source zkVM stack, supporting multiple programming languages and enabling scalable, privacy-preserving blockchain applications


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It was incubated within Polygon Labs before it was spun off this month, and follows Polygon’s strategic decision to phase out its underutilized zkEVM chain and redirect resources to its proof-of-stake network and AggLayer protocol.

Baylina will remain a Polygon advisor, but his main focus will now be on ZisK.

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