Kenny Li, Core Contributor of Manta Network, on The Future of Modularity, Decentralization, and More | Ep. 308

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In the latest episode of the Cryptonews Podcast, host Matt Zahab had a wide-ranging discussion with Kenny Li, Core Contributor to the privacy-preserving Polkadot–based protocol and layer-1 blockchain Manta Network.

In this exclusive interview, Li talked about:

You can also continue reading to learn what Li told us.

Manta Network has experienced tremendous growth in a short amount of time.

Manta Pacific officially launched its Mainnet Alpha on September 12, 2023.

“Alongside Celestia and Polygon Labs, we are excited to unveil the next chapters for the Manta Pacific journey, one that will result in Manta Pacific as a modular zkEVM using the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK),” according to the team’s detailed roadmap.

The team has been building Manta for the past three years, Li said, with two and a half of them primarily focused on the technology and the development.

“Once we realized that this project is pretty much good to go, we shifted gears and really pushed hard on the marketing side.”

However, by that point, the L2 was already up for about six months and has grown to become the largest modular L2, says Li.

Furthermore, it’s the third largest Ethereum L2, behind Optimism and Arbitrum, and it’s got over 180 ecosystem projects deployed already.