Alex Gluchowski, the co-founder and CEO of zkSync creator Matter Labs, has denied copy-pasting code from Polygon Zero, after the zero-knowledge scaling firm accused them of copying the code from their system without proper attribution.
On Aug. 3, Polygon Zero published a long blog post saying they believe Matter Labs copied what they described as “performance-critical components” of their zero-knowledge system called “Plonky2.” The code was seen on Matter Labs’ recently-released proving system dubbed “Boojum,” without attributing the code’s original authors, according to Polygon Zero.
The zk-scaling company said that this behavior is detrimental to the developer ecosystem. The firm highlighted that it can potentially hurt smaller development teams as better-funded competitors could simply reappropriate their work without proper attribution. They wrote:
“Copy-pasting source code without attribution and making misleading claims about the original work is against the open source ethos and hurts the ecosystem.”
Responding to the allegations, Gluchowski denied that they simply copy-pasted the code. The executive addressed the issues brought up by Polygon Zero through a long tweet. According to Gluchowski, every decision they made toward building zkSync was based on integrity and transparency.
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