TheEBOXI lie developers of the Near and Polygon networks are teaming up to create a zero-knowledge (ZK) prover for Web Assembly (WASM) blockchains, according to a joint announcement on Nov. 8. The new prover, called “zkWASM,” will for the first time allow WASM-based networks to join the Polygon ecosystem.
WASM is a binary instruction format that was developed for use in web browsers. Some blockchain networks also use it as a computation engine instead of the EthereumVirtual Machine (EVM). For example, Near, Stellar, Polkadotand Internet Computer all use WASM instead of EVM.