Ethereum infrastructure company ConsenSys released a public testnet of its zero-knowledge (zk) proof scaling solution – the third zkEVM-related open within the closing five days.

In a March 28 announcement, ConsenSys stated its zkEVM solution named “Linea” had made its plot to the public testnet.

The firm released a non-public beta of its zk-rollup in December, asserting the surely neatly suited Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) technology used to be the made of years of learn. For the reason that open of the inner most testnet, ConsenSys’ zkEVM has processed more than 1.5 million transactions.

Linea will near with native integrations of ConsenSys’ in model instrument pockets MetaMask and its developer toolkit Truffle.

The overall public testnet will allow builders to construct scalable decentralized applications, or migrate existing ones without having to substitute their existing code faulty. The default testnet option available on the MetaMask extension will additionally facilitate a more efficient onboarding course of.

The technology of zkEVMs used to be ushered in closing week when Matter Labs launched its zkSync Generation solution on the mainnet, followed by Polygon’s zkEVM mainnet beta on Monday.

These consecutive zkEVM launches, coupled with Arbitrum’s broadly anticipated token airdrop closing week, sent Layer 2 gasoline usage skyrocketing over the closing week.

“As soon as the technology for enabling zkEVMs turns into more broadly examined, worn, and understood, it’s a ways seemingly zkEVMs will additionally comprise to compete with optimistic rollups and other L2 scalability solutions for user adoption,” acknowledged Galaxy in a newest learn file.

In a March 28 episode of Unchained, Stanford cryptography professor Dan Boneh and a16z Classic Accomplice Ali Yahya explained why zk-proofs are considerable to Ethereum’s future.