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Taiko x Avalon Labs: Building the Future of RWA on Truly Decentralized Infrastructure

We are excited to announce our strategic partnership with Avalon Labs. This is not just another integration. It's a definitive statement: the future of sustainable, transparent DeFi is being built on truly decentralized infrastructure. Avalon Labs will deploy its complete stablecoin and Real-World Asset (RWA) infrastructure on Taiko, bringing:Sustainable stablecoin liquidityInstitutional-grade RWA yield productsPermissionless, censorship-resistant railsThe Roadmap: Bringing RWA Yields to Taik...

Wrapping Up Season 6, Trailblazer Role and the Road Ahead

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

Taiko Achieves 100% ZK Coverage: The Future of Rollup Security Is Here

Introduction: A Milestone in Rollup MaturityStarting this week, every block on Taiko mainnet is proven with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. Not someday but TODAY! This achievement marks a step toward Stage 2 rollup maturity, the highest standard of decentralization defined by Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum community. While implemented as a soft requirement today, every mainnet batch is already being proven with ZK in production. In an industry where "decentralization roadmaps" often replace act...

TaikoSwap, Our Native DEX, Is Now Live!

Experience True DeFi on TaikoSwap

• Dex
• Ethereum
• Taiko

Taiko Stack Selected by ENS for Namechain Based Rollup

ENS, Ethereum's most widely used naming protocol, has chosen the Taiko stack as the foundation for Namechain, its dedicated ZK rollup for decentralized naming services. Namechain will deploy as a based rollup using Surge, Nethermind's framework built on Taiko's technology. One of Ethereum's most critical infrastructure protocols is launching with the architecture Taiko pioneered and brought to production.Why This MattersWhen ENS (responsible for human-readable addresses ac...

ULTRA TX & Gwyneth — Synchronous composability across L1 & L2

This writeup introduces synchronous composability via ULTRA TX by Gwyneth, explaining how they work together to make L1 and L2 blocks programmable and composable. Written by Arixon and reviewed by Brecht.0) TL;DR (mental model)One fat L1 transaction (“ULTRA TX”) sits at the top of each L1 block (mostly, not enforced yet). Read more about ULTRA TX here.Inside it, a master builder bundles: L1 account‑abstracted txs, multiple L2 blocks, proofs/witnesses, and the outputs of any cross‑chain calls....

Taiko Integrates Chainlink ACE: Compliance for Decentralized Tokenization

Taiko has integrated with Chainlink's Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), joining Ethereum and Linea as one of three blockchain partners in the launch ecosystem. This brings modular compliance infrastructure to Taiko while preserving the credible neutrality that based rollups deliver. The Compliance Bottleneck Tokenization has clear institutional use cases: real-world assets, securities and regulated financial instruments. The bottleneck isn't technical capability. Blockchains can re...

The Updated Taiko Alethia Whitepaper Is Here

The technical blueprint is out. This is how we're building a based rollup that actually works. Why based matters Most rollups today run on centralized sequencers. One company controls transaction ordering. One point of failure. One entity that can censor you, extract MEV, or simply go offline and take the whole network with it. We didn't want to scale Ethereum by introducing new trust assumptions. So Taiko hands the sequencing back to Ethereum's own validators. Same censorship ...

Trailblazers Season 5 Rewards are Here!

Greetings, Trailblazers! The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Eligible participants from Season 5 can now claim their TAIKO tokens directly through their Trailblazers profile. Congratulations to everyone who qualified. 🏆 TAIKO Token Rewards for Trailblazers S5 🏆 Level 14 (Legend): 3,037.50 Level 13 (Densetsu): 1,948.58 Level 12 (Kodai): 1,378.72 Level 11 (Hashira): 749.87 Level 10 (Shogun): 465.72 Level 9 (Taichou II): 241.69 Level 8 (Taichou I): 197.67 Level 7 (Sensei II): 138.1...

Taikolights: Q3 2025 Community Update

Faster. Stronger. More Decentralized.Hello, from the end of Q3! It’s been a full-on quarter, with transformative upgrades, key integrations and community growth for Taiko. Here's what defined the quarter:Based Preconfirmations Live on Mainnet – Phase 1 upgrade cut confirmation times to ~2s, making Taiko 20–30× faster.Hoodi Testnet Launched – New testnet with preconfirmation support, replacing Hekla.Chainlink Oracles Integrated – Chainlink Data Streams now power Taiko dApps with sub-secon...

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.