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Polygon (MATIC) is planning to launch zkEVM, a new Layer-2 scaling solution, in a mainnet phase on March 27. It will be a zero-knowledge rollup, designed to carry out computations off-chain on a secondary layer, making the transactions cheaper and faster, while still secure.
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