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Polygon Zero accuses Matter Labs’ developers of plagiarism

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Update (Aug. 3 at  9:49 p.m. UTC): This article has been updated to add Matter Labs’ response.  Polygon’s zero-knowledge scaling arm, Polygon Zero, is accusing developers of Matter Labs of copy-pasting “a substantial amount of source code” from its Plonky2 library, according to an announcement on Aug. 3. The allegedly plagiarized code was found on zkSync, a competitor layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum powered by zero-knowledge technology. Matter Labs, the developer of the zkSync ecosystem, has denied the claims. According to Polygon Zero, Matter Labs recently released a proving system called Boojum…

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Here’s how developers aim to store crypto inside NFTs

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Developers have recently published an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) introducing a new way to use nonfungible tokens (NFTs). With this system, all NFTs can have a smart contract account, allowing them to store other NFTs or crypto tokens.  Cointelegraph spoke with Future Primitive’s Jayden Windle and Benny Giang, the authors of EIP-6551, to explain the use cases of the proposal and its implications for the crypto space. Jayden Windle and Benny Giang explain ERC-6551. Source: Cointelegraph  According to Windle, while there are a lot of complicated workings behind the feature,…

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