In his 2021 rollup primer, Buterin wrote, “In general, my own view is that in the short term, Optimistic rollups are likely to win out for general-purpose EVM computation and ZK rollups are likely to win out for simple payments, exchange and other application-specific use cases, but in the medium to long term ZK rollups will win out in all use cases as ZK-SNARK technology improves.”
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/07/20/the-sudden-rise-of-evm-compatible-zk-rollups/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines