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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\nPolygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron and co-founder Brendan Farmer discussed everything about the AggLayer, a decentralized protocol built by Polygon that enables fast, secure cross-chain interactions and allows different chains to use the same native bridge. This allows users to seamlessly move assets across chains in the AggLayer ecosystem.\xa0\nThe AggLayer aims to unify blockspace so that it feels like a single chain, improving user experience. Boiron and Farmer also discussed the potential for Layer 2 solutions to scale Ethereum, the benefits of zero-knowledge technology, and the future of Polygon's proof-of-stake chain.\nLearn more: What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?\nShow highlights:\n\nBackground of Brendan and Marc and how they joined Polygon\n\nA brief description of what Polygon is overall\n\nWhat the AggLayer is and how it aims to enable the best of monolithic and modular blockchains\n\nHow Brendan differentiates the AggLayer from its competitors, such as Optimism's Superchain or Cosmos and why he believes that zk-technology is such a game changer\n\nHow the interoperability experience gets better in such a system, according to Marc and Brendan, and what will become possible that's not now\n\nWhich chains can use the AggLayer and how it works to improve security across chains\n\nThe tradeoffs between the various types of zkEVM provers\xa0\n\nHow projects should decide their architecture and when it would make sense to tap the AggLayer\n\nWhy projects should build on the AggLayer, including layer 1s, according to Marc\n\nHow Layer 1s can still join the AggLayer and retain their own consensus and sovereignty\xa0\n\nWhy Polygon believes that zk-technology is the future of blockchain architecture\n\nWhy the Polgyon zkEVM suffered an outage on March 30\n\nWhether Layer 3s are needed to scale the Ethereum ecosystem\n\nWhy Brendan believes that EigenLayer is not a good fit for rollups to use\n\nThe transition of the Polygon PoS chain to become an Ethereum L2 using the AggLayer\n\nWhen EIP-4844/Dencun will go live on Polygon\n\nThank you to our sponsors!\nPolkadot\nGuests:\n\n\nMarc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs\n\nPrevious appearances on Unchained:\n\nGary Gensler vs. Crypto: What Will the SEC Attack Next?\n\nThe Chopping Block: The SEC Is Attacking Crypto \u2013 Will Gary Gensler Succeed?\n\n\nBrendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon and co-lead of Polygon Zero\n\nLinks\nAggLayer\n\nPolygon: Aggregated Blockchains: A New Thesis\n\n\nMore technical Agglayer explainer\n\nCoinDesk:\xa0\n\nPolygon Lands Astar Network as First User of New 'AggLayer\u2019\n\n\nCosmos-Based Canto Blockchain Reverses Course on Polygon Layer-2 Plans, Unveils New Roadmap\xa0\n\nZaki on the comparisons with Cosmos\n\n\n\nzk-Technology\n\nPolygon: Upgrading Every EVM Chain to ZK: Introducing the Type 1 Prover\n\n\n\nThe different types of ZK-EVMs by Vitalik\n\nUnchained: Why Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Critical to Ethereum\u2019s Future\n\n\nPolygon zkEVM\n\nUnchained: Polygon zkEVM Chain Goes Down for 10 Hours\n\n\nBlockworks: Polygon unpacks zkEVM outage and \u2018emergency\u2019 upgrade\n\n\nLayer 3s\n\nUnchained: Layer 3s Only Exist to Take Value Away From Ethereum: Polygon Labs CEO\n\n\n0xCygaar on L3s and L2s\n\n\nPotuz on the benefit of L3s\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices