zkEVMs and the Future of Blockchain Scalability

The hype around blockchain technologies may have quieted, but the builders are still building. The toughest technical problems that kept blockchain from mass adoption over the past few years—slow and expensive transactions—are being solved by layer 2s. zkEVMs, and Linea in particular, are a key part of this solution.

Let’s look at layer 2s on Ethereum—their architecture, why they are needed, what zkEVMs are and how they work, and the details of the new Linea mainnet release.

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