A day after Arbitrum’s public airdrop, another Ethereum scaler is launching its own offering.

Matter Labs’ zkSync Era is now open to users to begin bridging and using the layer-2 technology.

It’s the final step in a phased mainnet launch that began in 2019.

Rollups allow Ethereum to scale by moving transactions off of the mainnet, and onto a layer-2 network like zkSync. Users can then go about their business on this second network, with transactions being batched and compressed into a small piece of data called a proof. This proof is then sent back to Ethereum and verified.

Today’s zkSync launch does, however, come with a word of warning.

“It will definitely be an alpha version of the system,” Matter Labs head of engineering Anthony Rose told Decrypt. “We’re not claiming this is the system that we expect it to be either 2 or 3 years from now. There’s lots and lots more engineering work to do. But this is the core skeleton of the zkEVM.”

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