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zkOmnichain: Leading the Web3 Network into a New Era of Full Chain Interoperability
zkOmnichain: The Cornerstone of Web3 Networks' Future
zkRollup and zkOmnichain belong to Layer 2 and Layer 0 tracks respectively. The former aims to solve the Ethereum congestion problem, while the latter is dedicated to building the entire Web3 network. Due to the significant influence of the Ethereum ecosystem, zkRollup has received widespread attention, whereas zkOmnichain is often overlooked. However, the zero-knowledge proof-based full-chain interoperability protocol zkOmnichain is actually a key technology for blockchain and Web3, and its importance should not be underestimated.
Ethereum's market share is difficult to maintain above 70% in the long term. Data shows that from August 2020 to February 2023, Ethereum's TVL share has decreased to 59.24%. Although the chain-layer infrastructure of Web3 may maintain a "one super and many strong" pattern, with Layer 2 absorbing traffic from Layer 1, the strong growth of other public chains, and the rise of new public chains, it is expected that Ethereum's market share will remain below 50% for the long term after 2025.
Since the DeFi summer of 2020, most applications have adopted a primitive approach of deploying separately on each chain to achieve multi-chain status. This method not only increases the deployment and operational difficulty for developers but also leads to serious fragmentation of liquidity across chains and significant price differences for the same token on different chains.
The main paths for achieving full chain coverage in applications include: interoperability with the starting chain and target chain through an intermediate consensus protocol; completing cross-chain interoperability through the Optimistic mechanism; and interoperability with other chains through the zero-knowledge proof-based full chain interoperability protocol zkOmnichain. Additionally, another method is to deploy the application on a new smart contract public chain and then achieve interoperability with other chains through that chain.
The first generation of intermediary chain models faces a trade-off between the number of validation nodes and security, and the operating costs of the nodes are high, making it difficult to bear the responsibilities of Web3 network infrastructure. Therefore, we need to shift our focus to non-intermediary chain models, especially the second generation opOmnichain and the third generation zkOmnichain.
The full-chain interoperability protocol Layer 0 track is similar to the Ethereum scaling solution Layer 2 track, forming two major types of solutions: OP and ZK. The Optimistic Oracle sub-mode in the OP solution has issues of decentralization and shared security, and relies on strict trust assumptions. Although the Optimistic Verification sub-mode is more rigorous, it still has latency issues.
In contrast, the zkOmnichain model has better robustness, can generate validity proofs, and achieves completeness and fairness through rigorous mathematics and cryptographic verification. The emergence of zkOmnichain shows us the possibility of transitioning from "chain" to "network", as well as the feasibility of building Layer 0 infrastructure that supports large-scale full-chain application deployment.
The full-chain application based on zkOmnichain will bring significant changes: it eliminates intermediate chains, intermediate tokens, and derivative tokens, does not rely on oracles, and achieves decentralization and trustlessness through rigorous mathematics and cryptography, enabling peer-to-peer full-chain communication similar to the Bitcoin network.
In the next three years, full-chain applications are expected to gradually replace single-chain/multi-chain applications, becoming the mainstream deployment model for Web3 applications. The zkOmnichain interoperability protocol will be the key technology and infrastructure to achieve this process. We can look forward to the vigorous development of full-chain AMM, full-chain lending, full-chain SocialFi, and full-chain NFT applications based on zkOmnichain.