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EXIT GAMES FOR EVM VALIDIUMS: THE RETURN OF PLASMA

vitalik.eth.limo12 min read

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

This post from Vitalik Buterin discusses the evolution of Plasma, a blockchain scaling solution, and its applications. Despite initial hurdles like high data storage costs and issues in generalizing beyond payments, the introduction of validity proofs or ZK-SNARKs has potentially breathed new life into Plasma. These proofs could efficiently address the biggest challenge faced by Plasma. Buterin delves into more technical aspects of Plasma and how it would work for NFTs, fungible tokens, and the EVM.