{"id":24771,"date":"2025-06-18T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygon-zkevm-team-launches-independent-startup-zisk\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:22:57","slug":"polygon-zkevm-team-launches-independent-startup-zisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygon-zkevm-team-launches-independent-startup-zisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon zkEVM Team Launches Independent Startup ZisK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder of Polygon, Jordi Baylina, along with a team of seven developers behind Polygon zkEVM, has transitioned to an independent project named ZisK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me, together with a core team of 7 developers, just spun off from Polygon to continue the ZisK project as an independent initiative.<br \/>I\u2019ll remain co-founder and advisor at Polygon, but my main focus now shifts to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ziskvm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ziskvm<\/a>.<br \/>Excited for this new era in the blockchain journey \u2014 we\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aCOvbm3BX4\">https:\/\/t.co\/aCOvbm3BX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jordi Baylina \u2014 baylina.eth (@jbaylina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbaylina\/status\/1935307486421987576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision follows recent <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-co-founder-takes-sole-leadership-of-the-project\">leadership changes<\/a> at Polygon, which saw co-founder Sandeep Nailwal assume full control of the Polygon Foundation as its first CEO.<\/p>\n<p>As part of these changes, the head of the L2 platform introduced new strategic priorities for the project. Among other things, they included the closure of Polygon zkEVM in 2026 to focus on the development of Polygon PoS and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-labs-unveils-blockchain-aggregation-layer-agglayer\">AggLayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Growthepie&#8217;s head of research, Lorenz Lehmann, noted that the network had been operating at a loss of over $1 million annually. Initially, the project was called Hermez, which was rebranded to Polygon zkEVM in 2021 following a $250 million acquisition.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is ZisK?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to the announcement shared by Baylina, ZisK represents a &#8220;new era&#8221; for zero-knowledge proof technology:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;A high-performance open-source zkVM stack developed at Polygon has now spun off as an independent project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the transition, all intellectual property of Polygon zkEVM was transferred to Baylina&#8217;s company, SilentSig Switzerland GmbH. He will remain an advisor for the L2 solution.<\/p>\n<p>ZisK features a modular design and is built on universal zkProver technology. The system functions as a library or standalone software for creating custom proofs. The team offers Ethereum projects direct integration of the technology into protocols or the ability to modify the code to suit their needs.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024, the largest liquid staking protocol, Lido, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lido-to-cease-support-for-polygon\">ceased<\/a> support for Polygon PoS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder of Polygon, Jordi Baylina, along with a team of seven developers behind Polygon zkEVM, has transitioned to an independent project named ZisK. Me, together with a core team of 7 developers, just spun off from Polygon to continue the ZisK project as an independent initiative.I\u2019ll remain co-founder and advisor at Polygon, but my main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1192,1264],"class_list":["post-24771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-developers","tag-polygon-matic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"88","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}