Hassan Maishera
The Astar Network team announced via a blog post on Wednesday that Astar zkEVM is now public, advancing blockchain adoption as the first Layer-2 chain to fully integrate with Polygon’s AggLayer.
The team added that this latest development begins unifying state and liquidity and starts cross-chain interoperability between three major ecosystems: Polygon, Ethereum, and Astar Network.
Polygon’s unified bridge allows users to transfer any Ethereum asset natively to Astar zk rollup through a unified bridge. Instead of relying on 3rd party bridges to Ethereum, as other rollups and L2s do, Astar zkEVM will join Polygon zkEVM in the unified bridge.
Astar Network is a multi-chain dApp hub on Polkadot. The platform offers users various features which include dApps staking, L2 solutions, gas and grants. Its native ASTR token is up by more than 1% today and is now trading at $0.1575.
Polygon (previously Matic Network) is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications. MATIC is down by 11% in the last 24 hours and is currently trading at $1.016.
