According to The Block, Cysic, a zero-knowledge (ZK) chip startup, has raised a $6 million seed round of funding led by Polychain Capital, Hashkey, SNZ Holding, Web3.com Foundation and ABCDE Capital participated in the investment. Cysic aims to provide a hardware acceleration solution for the ZK proof protocol.

BlockBeats: On February 16th, zkSync's official Twitter account announced the launch of the zkSync Era main network, the first zkEVM main network on Ethereum, which will be open to all developers for registration and deployment, and open source its entire code base; Meanwhile, zkSync 2.0 was renamed zkSync Era and zkSync 1.0 was renamed zkSync Lite. In addition, a new roadmap will be released soon, and the next goal is to fully launch Alpha.

BlockBeats, February 15 Polygon announced that the Beta version of its zkEVM mainnet will be released on March 27. Polygon didn't specify exactly what the Beta network will contain, but said the team will release more details in the coming weeks.