Matter Labs CEO dismisses Polygon Zero claims of zkSync plagiarism

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski described Polygon Zero's allegation that zkSync copied their code without proper attribution as “unfounded, misleading, and extremely disappointing,” according to an Aug. 4 post on X, formerly Twitter. Polygon's plagiarism accusation On Aug.

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A dispute has erupted in the open-source community, with the Polygon Zero team, a branch of the Polygon project, accusing rival Matter Labs of appropriating significant amounts of source code without adequate attribution.

While Polygon Zero is claiming the code was used without the original copyrights or clear attribution to the original authors, Matter Labs stated that the code was "prominently attributed" in a line atop one of the files in question.

Polygon Zero, the zero-knowledge scaling arm of Polygon, has recently accused developers at Matter Labs of engaging in plagiarism by allegedly copy-pasting a substantial amount of source code from Polygon Zero's Plonky2 library. The contentious code was found on zkSync, which is a competitor layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum that also utilizes zero-knowledge technology.

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Polygon has accused zero-knowledge rollup zkSync which recently hit significant milestones, of copying its code without attribution and in the process, made some false claims about the original work. Polygon Claims Against zkSync Polygon protocol came up with Plonky2 and Starky, two Zero-Knowledge (zk) proof systems that are known to be very fast.

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