The countdown has begun for Amazon. After months of development, and some delays, the world leader in e-commerce will launch its NFTs platform. The American giant is getting ready to sell NFTs on its website. About fifteen collections will be available from the launch. According to speculations, it will be online on April 24.
The platform, which was revealed by Blockworks in January, will be available on the site of the American giant via a tab “Amazon Digital Marketplace”. This tab will only be available in the United States at first. The platform will gradually be opened to the rest of the world, including Europe.
According to information, the launch of Amazon Digital Marketplace has been postponed twice in recent weeks due to the collapse of FTX. April 24 now seems to be the date, barring any new exceptional event.
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Hype Around Polygon ZkEVM Intensify
Polygon is continuing to increase in value despite the ongoing crypto bear market. The project’s native token MATIC has surpassed Dogecoin (DOGE) in terms of market cap and is now the ninth largest crypto token.
Polygon MATIC’s market capitalization is currently $11.52 billion, according to data from CoinGecko. That’s higher than Dogecoin’s (DOGE) $11.33 billion market cap. That’s the highest market capitalization MATIC has seen since March of last year.
Polygon is also not far away from taking over Cardano (ADA), which currently has a $11.72 billion market cap. MATIC’s all-time high market capitalization is almost $19 billion, which it reached at the height of the last crypto bull market in December of 2021. Despite the harsh crypto winter that saw multiple tokens reach their all-time lows, MATIC is still up over 40,000% from its all-time low of $0.003 and is currently trading at $1.13.
While there are lots of reasons why MATIC has been so successful in holding its value over the past year, the rumors of its zkEVM scaling solution launching soon on Ethereum mainnet have probably contributed to Polygon’s recent success the most.
Polygon has been recently hyping up its zkEVM scaling solution, something that very few teams are currently working on.
That’s because zkEVMs are notoriously hard to develop. A zkEVM stands for zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine and is considered to be the holy grail of Ethereum scaling. zkEVMs improve throughput and decrease gas prices by computation and storage off-chain and generating zero-knowledge proofs to verify the validity of off-chain transaction batches.
There are currently no zkEVMs that are deployed on Ethereum mainnet but Polygon’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal tweeted on January 17 that the team developing Polygon’s zkEVM has set a launch date and that it’s “soon.”
On top of that, Eduardo Antuña, Polygon zkEVM’s core developer, tweeted on Thursday that Polygon has managed to increase its zkEVM’s proving time and costs. Really excited about our results on the Polygon zkEVM Prover. Batchproof 2:30 (2min soon) ~500 or ~250 ERC20 tx/batch.
On a spot m6id.metal prover’s cost: $0.064/proof ($0.0001/tx) The fastest ZK tech and the first production-ready zkEVM. The prover is no longer a bottleneck. All of this indicates that Polygon’s zkEVM, at least in theory, will soon be deployed on Ethereum mainnet. That would be an achievement like none other and potentially take MATIC to new highs.