Ryan Sean Adams

I think it deserves the treatment that the Ethereum community has given previous forks.

And I think in addition to all of the valuable things that we got from the three forks that I just mentioned, this one is actually the biggest upgrade that Ethereum will ever experience because it relates to users more than any of the three forks in the past.

And that is the fork that introduces the ZK EVM to Ethereum.

Now, Asghar, these are the sentiments that I want to start this podcast off with.

Before we get into what is the DK EVM and all the technical details about it, I just wanted to give those sentiments to you and have you reflect upon them before we kind of dive into the technicals.

So it is the introduction of an era of Ethereum rather than an acute hard fork.

And I think the ZK EVM era will be has the potential to be Ethereum's best era because of what the ZK EVM does for Ethereum.

So let's let's stop hyping it up and start to get into the technical details.

What do we need to know about what a ZK EVM is?

What is it?

And then we can talk about like why what it is that's so significant to Ethereum.

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