Name Crisis in Ethereum Altcoins: Billion Dollar Giants Caught Up in Each Other!

In his statement on Twitter, the CEO used the following sentences:

ZK cryptography was developed for the good of all. It is shameful to witness a company trying to expropriate “ToM” as private intellectual property. This is as absurd as an individual baker trying to impose a general patent on bread. We previously reached out to the Ethereum Foundation's legal team and offered to collaborate on creating a legal framework for using “ToM” and similar key technology terms in the public domain.

It was emphasized that zero-knowledge (ZK) technology has a special meaning and that some protocols use this technology. For this reason, it was considered strange that many projects used it as an abbreviation.

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Brendan Farmer, Eli Ben-Sanson and Polyhedra co-founder Matter Labs, which currently uses ZK as an acronym, asked to withdraw their application.

Polyhedra also noted that it will change the abbreviation of ZK to ZKJ.

Linea also intervened

Finally, Linea, the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution supported by Consensys, stated that it supports StarkWare by making a statement on Twitter.

Saying that MatterLabs should withdraw its application, just like other projects, Linea said that claiming ownership of a permissionless and decentralized layer-2 environment is against Ethereum principles.