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ZK-Roller-Coaster #11

This is the 11th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. Special thanks to 11th edition contributors: Alexander B., Thisu, Hlpr. Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own research. Hold on tight! 🎢Spice of the weeks 🍿ZK-EVM wars in progress!This time Polygon...

An incomplete guide to Folding: Nova, Sangria, SuperNova, HyperNova, Protostar

Special thanks to arnaucube**,* Brecht Devos, Barak, Benedikt Bünz, Binyi Chen, and Ben Wan for review.*TL;DRThe goal, the whole zk industry is working on, – is to (i) decrease the proof generation cost as much as possible while (ii) preserving proof as small as possible and (iii) verification as efficient as possible. It’s possible through prover optimisation or, as an alternative, one can compress the data the prover proves.Huge work was done on folding scheme techniques within the last sev...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #10

This is the 10th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the 5th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 10th edition contributors: Alexander B., Zen. Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own research. Hold ...

Unlocking new scaling paradigms with Taiko Inception Layers: customized functions, compatibility, and trust-level

TL;DR: In this article, we unpack the recently launched L3s on Taiko. We discuss the role of L3s in scaling Ethereum, the new use cases that L3s allow us to have, and some details on Taiko's specific approach.Meme inspired by ex_scxr.IntroductionWhen we talk about scaling Ethereum, we usually mean rollups that execute transactions off-chain and confirm (i) the proof of a transaction batch correct execution and (ii) “batch transactions summary” (block hash) on-chain. However, for the Ethe...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #9

This is the 9th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the 4th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 9th edition contributors: Alex_ADEdge, kshyun28, BluePillow alexanderblv, yona Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or co...

Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is live!

Taiko’s fourth testnet has arrived! Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is our first experiment with inception layers and a new staking based proving design. We are launching this testnet in order to test two things:Deploying Taiko on Taiko as an L3 inception layer (a rollup on a rollup 😏)Testing a new staking based prover economicsOur alpha-N releases are always experiments to test our hypothesis on the protocol and build a more robust system. So let's dive in!Inception layersInception layers are a n...

Announcing our first community grant program

We are super excited to announce the launch of Taiko’s first community grant program! 🌍🏗️ The aim of this program is to discover and support innovative community members that build up and build on the Taiko ecosystem, with the financial incentives and developer resources needed to bring their visions to life. Despite still being in our testnet phase we think there is immense value in supporting ambitious builders from Day 0, and allowing them to participate in the network’s potential succes...

Cross-chain communication exploration – rollups’ vision

TLDR: This article explores the approaches of different L2s to cross-chain messaging from rollups’ perspective, focusing more on trustless cross-chain communication. We briefly explain the direct state reading approach, light client approach, and storage proofs. We also mention proof aggregating mechanism, trusted-third party cross-chain messaging, and core ZK-cross-chain solutions. In the end, we cover examples of how different L2s approach cross-chain messaging today.ContentsPart I: Introdu...

Alpha-3 testnet update: stats & future plans

Alpha-3 has been drumming along for one month now! Let's take a look at what’s happened.Stats updatesThree weeks ago, our stats were: 📤 Unique proposers → 150 ✅ Unique provers → 67 🕒 Average block time → 3.5 seconds 🤝 Total transactions → 1,312,898 🧱 Total blocks → 185,351 💻 Wallet addresses → 207,063See our tweet thread for a full recap: https://twitter.com/taikoxyz/status/1669605951576625153And as of today, our stats are: 📤 Unique proposers → 3469 ✅ Unique provers → 462 🕒 Averag...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #8

This is the 8th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the third edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 8th edition contributors: BluePillow and Alexander Belyaev! Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own ...

L2 MEV wat

Special thanks to Nikete Della Penna, RJ, Matthew Finestone, and Brecht Devos for review and valuable insights.TLDRIn this article, we “map” the current landscape of L2 MEV, thinking about different MEV consequences for different L2 designs. We also briefly overview different ways of L2s decentralization and how it might impact L2 MEV.Wat is MEVDisclaimer: feel free to skip if you are familiar with MEV. For a detailed MEV explanation, check the article “Ethereum is a dark forest” by Paradigm ...

Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is live!

Taiko’s fourth testnet has arrived! Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is our first experiment with inception layers and a new staking based proving design. We are launching this testnet in order to test two things:Deploying Taiko on Taiko as an L3 inception layer (a rollup on a rollup 😏)Testing a new staking based prover economicsOur alpha-N releases are always experiments to test our hypothesis on the protocol and build a more robust system. So let's dive in!Inception layersInception layers are a n...

Based Rollup FAQ

Special thanks to Brecht, Archie, and Dave for comments and review. TL;DR In this article, we briefly cover a general rollup architecture and the rollup properties required for long-term robustness and safety. Then, we mention the origination history of the based rollup and unpack its architecture. In the FAQ section, we answer questions about based rollups. Disclaimer: rollup definitions struggle from lack of alignment sometimes. In this article, we refer to the rollup layers taxonomy provid...

ZK-EVM types: Ethereum-equivalent, EVM-equivalent, Type 1, Type 4, and other cryptic buzzwords

TL;DR A year ago, quite a few ZK-EVMs announced the upcoming launch of testnets. The community wondered what the difference between all these projects was and what Ethereum-equivalence, EVM-equivalence, and other popped-up buzzwords meant. To bring clarity, Vitalik wrote an article, “The different types of ZK-EVMs,” providing a taxonomy for different types of ZK-EVMs and explaining the difference. The core idea is: Type 1 (e.g., Taiko) is perfectly Ethereum-equivalent, and Type 4 (e.g., zkSyn...

Closing in on Stage 1: The Shasta Upgrade Is Almost Here!

A redesign of Taiko’s protocol that reduces proposing costs by over 20x and supports permissionless preconfirmations.

• Ethereum
• Layer2
• Rollups

Wrapping Up Season 6, Trailblazer Role and the Road Ahead

Greetings, Trailblazers. Learn about the Season 6 rewards and the future of Trailblazers program.