Manta Pacific launched its mainnet Alpha version on September 12, 2023. Alpha represents the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of Manta Pacific - an L2 based on functional EVM, equipped with the first generation of Universal Circuits (Universal Circuits). At the same time, Alpha represents only the first of many milestones in realizing the vision of Manta Pacific. We are excited to unveil the next chapter of the Manta Pacific journey with Celestia and Polygon Labs, which will make Manta Pacific a modular zkEVM using the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK).
In less than a month since the mainnet Alpha version was released, Manta Pacific has experienced explosive growth. User attraction continues to increase, with TVL (Total Value Locked) growing by as much as 1150% per week. Manta Pacific has already entered the top 20 in the L2Beat rankings and is the third largest OP Stack L2, behind only Optimism and Base. Once fully transitioned to zkEVM, Manta Pacific will become one of the largest zkEVM-based L2 networks on Polygon. The Manta Pacific ecosystem continues to thrive, with over 80 applications and partners launching new applications every day.
The launch of Manta Pacific will be divided into four different stages, each bringing a better user experience, leading to the final release of the Manta Pacific mainnet! The mainnet utilizes zkEVM using Polygon CDK and Celestia's Data Availability (DA) to achieve maximum performance, scalability, and user security. We have already begun the first stage! https://twitter.com/MantaNetwork/status/1701583217143464171
Manta Pacific's transition will provide unique solutions to existing problems in the blockchain industry. It will be the first zkEVM L2 to transition from Optimistic Rollup to Validium, a transition achieved using Polygon CDK, significantly reducing gas fees through Celestia DA and increasing security through cryptographic proofs of Ethereum consensus and on-chain activities.
Manta Pacific Roadmap
Chapter 1: Manta Pacific Alpha (Ethereum L2)
In the current version, Manta Pacific is based on Ethereum's Optimistic Rollup, using Ethereum's Data Availability (DA). It utilizes Manta Network's Universal Circuits, allowing developers to quickly build, test, and deploy ZK (Zero-Knowledge Proof) supported applications using only Solidity and the Universal Circuits SDK. The goal is to build a dApp (decentralized application) ecosystem based on Manta zkSBT and Universal Circuits (such as zkShuffle).
On Manta Pacific, developers can benefit from Manta's Universal Circuits and OP Stack's low gas fees and scalability to build unique ZK-supported dApps, which is unprecedented in existing Layer 2 solutions. Specifically, Manta Pacific provides Universal Circuits for popular use cases (such as card shuffling/dealing and private on-chain voting), Solidity smart contracts for on-chain ZK logic, and a TypeScript SDK for frontend integration.
With Manta's Universal Circuits, developers without ZK background can easily develop dApps with built-in ZK features, without the need to spend years of engineering effort to customize ZK circuits. Unlike Starkware and Aztec's redesign of domain-specific languages (DSL) such as Cario and Noir, Manta Pacific achieves equivalence with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) through the adoption of OP Stack Bedrock codebase. Therefore, all existing Ethereum smart contracts can seamlessly adapt to Manta Pacific, enabling ZK-based functionality and opening up new application scenarios, such as verifiable private DID/KYC, fully on-chain ZK-based games, and collaboration between DeFi and decentralized privacy identities, including whitelist and cash-out channels based on zkSBT.
Chapter 2: Manta Pacific Alpha II (+Celestia DA)
In this stage, Manta Pacific will achieve data scalability by integrating Celestia's modular Data Availability (DA), significantly reducing gas costs for user interaction with dApps within the Manta Pacific ecosystem.
Manta Pacific currently settles using calldata, with costs linearly related to Ethereum's gas price, fluctuating with Ethereum usage. In contrast, Celestia's costs have a sub-linear relationship with Ethereum's gas price, making them much cheaper than Ethereum's current costs. Although Ethereum plans to reduce gas costs through EIP-4844, its costs will still be higher than Celestia's costs, and block space will continue to be an emerging issue in the future.
Chapter 3: Manta Pacific Beta(+Transition to zkEVM)
The goal in this stage is to fully transition to zkEVM using the Polygon CDK. At the same time, Manta Pacific may explore a transition period using a multi-prover framework to securely migrate to full zkEVM. The multi-prover will integrate Polygon's ZK provers and existing OP Stack Rollup, allowing Manta Pacific to benefit from both Polygon ZK prover clusters and Manta's existing clusters in multiple dimensions. The multi-prover architecture during the transition period will enhance the network's robustness, and with Celestia DA, Manta Pacific's multi-prover system will still provide users with a low-cost L2 system.
Manta Pacific plans to fully transition to zkEVM and utilize Polygon's ZK provers. The final stage of the network architecture will be Manta's Universal Circuits, used for built-in ZK features to support a wide range of ZK applications, combined with Validium services, Celestia DA, zkEVM, and Polygon CDK to achieve scalability.
Chapter 4: Manta Pacific Production-Grade Mainnet I (+Universal Circuits 2.0)
For the Manta Pacific mainnet, Manta Pacific will further upgrade the Universal Circuits to achieve lower gas costs, support more use cases, and provide a better user experience. First, Manta Pacific will integrate ZK proof aggregation technology to significantly reduce on-chain proof verification gas costs for ZK applications and increase ZK processing throughput.
Second, Manta Pacific will integrate additional ZK schemes and corresponding smart contracts to support more ZK-based utilities. Third, Manta Pacific will provide a better user experience through collaboration with account abstraction projects. Finally, Manta Pacific will achieve modularity, decentralization, high scalability, low gas costs, and full EVM equivalence, while unlocking new application scenarios with novel ZK technology.
Outlook for the Future of Manta Pacific
With the completion of the fourth phase, the full mainnet deployment of Manta Pacific will be achieved. At the same time, users will be able to fully utilize the network to interact with dApps on-chain within the ecosystem, just as they would on any other L1 or L2. Meanwhile, as the underlying architecture of Manta Pacific continues to evolve, users will discover significant differences and improvements in their daily interactions with applications in the Manta Pacific ecosystem.
Manta Pacific will unlock the next generation of dApps, particularly through ZK enablement and scalability. In the testnet, Manta Pacific has already deployed over 200 verified contracts, introducing a variety of decentralized applications into the ecosystem. We look forward to achieving this goal and appreciate all the support from our community.
About Manta Network
Manta Network is a modular blockchain for zero-knowledge (ZK) applications. Manta Pacific is a modular L2 ecosystem for EVM-native ZK applications and dApps, aimed at providing users with the lowest cost and best experience. Manta Pacific leverages Manta's Universal Circuits to provide ZK as a service and utilizes Celestia's data availability for modularity, offering low gas fees and a perfect environment for ZK-enabled applications. Learn more about Manta Pacific here.
Manta Network was created by an experienced founding team from renowned institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Algorand. Manta Network has received investments from multiple top web3 investment funds, including Binance Labs and Polychain Capital. It has achieved development through participation in top web3 accelerators including Alliance DAO and Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. Manta Network is poised to bring a new experience to the next generation of web3 users and usher in a new era of privacy-centric web3 applications.
Original article link: https://mantanetwork.medium.com/the-manta-pacific-roadmap-d09a9d918553
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