Since the Modular Summit in Paris in late July last year, research and discussion on modular projects have never stopped. Many people believe that it will be the next hot track, but it is worth noting that modular narratives are diverse and more complex in design, which will be a huge challenge for the technology and security of the network. At the same time, the already diverse second-layer solutions have diverged again, which means that the funds of platform investors are once again placed in more baskets.

With Celestia (TIA) launching a 10-fold increase after listing on Binance, the discussion on the concept of modular blockchain has become increasingly heated, and a large number of modular projects have frequently appeared in the eyes of investors again, such as Manta Network, Fuel, Eclipse, Caldera, dYmension, Omni Network, etc.

Among them, Manta Network performed well. Not only did Manta Pacific TVL rise to more than $1.6 billion, but its project token MANTA also rose to more than $3 despite the market crash. In addition, in January this year alone, Manta Network received investment from two institutions, Newman Capital and ArkStream Capital.

Manta Network is a multi-module ecosystem for zero-knowledge applications, bringing programmable privacy to Web3 through compliant on-chain privacy and identity. It uses zk-SNARK to provide complete end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and cross-chain operation capabilities (supporting mainstream cryptocurrencies and stablecoins on Polkadot and its parachains). Manta's products mainly include a decentralized privacy payment protocol, a decentralized privacy token exchange protocol, and a decentralized privacy lending and synthetic asset protocol to be developed in the future.

Manta's modular design includes two aspects:

Manta Pacific uses mature technology stacks such as OP Stack and Polygon CDK to implement its modular architecture.

Unlike other layer 2 solutions, Manta Pacific did not build its infrastructure from scratch, but used the existing mature OP Stack technology stack.

If Manta is a newly established smartphone brand, then using OP Stack is like directly using the supply chain and technology architecture of the iPhone.

The benefit of this approach is that Optimism is a project that has been tested in the bear market, and its technology stack OP Stack has also been tested in the market for a long time and is very mature.Manta Pacific can stand directly on the shoulders of giants, and largely inherits the existing security and technical advantages of OP Stack.

In addition, it achieves full EVM compatibility, allowing developers to easily migrate existing DApps to Manta Pacific. More importantly, Manta can focus more on ecological construction and project expansion. As of now, Manta Pacific has verified more than 810 smart contracts on its chain and has more than 200 ecological projects.

Manta Pacific uses Celestia as its data availability layer, which means that its data availability security is partially guaranteed by the Ethereum mainnet and Celestia. If the serialization node publishes real data, the corresponding data can be found on the Ethereum mainnet and Celestia.

Manta Pacific's sorter specifies the block height to which the blob is published on Ethereum. If the blob does not exist at that height, the transaction is invalid.

Sorter publishes data: Publish the transaction to the inbox, which is encoded in three parts: version number (0x02), block height (0xa4aa05000000000000), and blob commitment (the rest). By specifying the height, the node knows where to look.

For example, 0xa4aa050000000000 is the little-endian encoding of the block height, which translates to block 371364. You can find the same block at https://celenium.io/block/371364.

This block contains a block in the Manta Pacific namespace. If the sorter publishes forged data, the node will not be able to find the commitment at the specified block height.

Manta's own ZK circuit adopts a modular design, and the ZK function is built into Manta Pacific. Developers can fully call and implement ZK functions and features in Manta Pacific, which is different from other ZK Rollups or zkEVM. Developers can also easily call ZK circuits to combine ZK functions with applications.

In ZK Rollup interactions, users conduct transactions inside ZK Rollup, and the Rollup sorter acts as a prover to sort, compress, and package user transactions to generate ZK proofs. The Ethereum mainnet smart contract acts as a verifier to verify the correctness of the ZK proof, thereby verifying the correctness of the transaction it represents.

The mainnet smart contract does not need to perform complex verification of ZK Rollup transactions. A ZK proof can represent the correctness of more transaction information, achieving scalability and improving the transaction confirmation capability of the Ethereum mainnet.

In contrast, Manta Pacific users act as provers and generate ZK proofs locally when submitting transactions. On-chain collectors act as validators and verify ZK proofs. The verified transactions are then compressed by the sorter and submitted to the Ethereum mainnet. In Layer 2, Manta Pacific completes ZK generation and verification, fully realizing ZK functionality.

Because of the above advantages, #MantaRWA生态 's token $MANTA has shown strong momentum recently, which deserves close attention from investors.

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