The Rollup Coaster is a bi-weekly newsletter that dives into the fascinating world of Ethereum, exploring the latest in rollups, zero-knowledge proofs, MEV-PBS, and much more.
This edition is written by Taiko’s Community Advocate Jünger.
Hold on tight! 🎢
Disclaimer: This newsletter is neither financial advice, nor is indicative of Taiko’s position on any of the material presented. Please do your own research.
Highlights 🎢
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Taiko’s Katla Testnet (Alpha-6) is now live! In this testnet, Taiko integrated the Based Contestable Rollup (BCR) design, multi-proofs, and SGX. Check the details in this article.
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Dencun upgrade is coming! The upgrade includes several changes, most notably protodanksharding, which will help reduce L2 transaction fees.
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Vitalik in his article, advocated for a return to Ethereum's core principles of openness and decentralization. He criticized the current trend toward centralization and financialization, which had been fueled by high transaction fees and a gambling culture.
Vitalik highlighted the potential of rollups, privacy enhancements, and zero-knowledge proofs to reinvigorate Ethereum's original vision. He saw a future where Ethereum could contribute significantly to a technologically integrated society, prioritizing security and decentralization.
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Discussions about increasing the gas limits of Ethereum. Dankrad pointed out that it’s important to increase the CALLDATA fee while increasing the GASLIMIT.
ZK and rollup research 🧙
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Andrew Miller wrote a post with significant points about the use of TEEs in the crypto space.
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Eclipse (Solana VM on Ethereum) shared a blog post about their bridge and proving system.
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New episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast Prediction: ZK in 2024.
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LambdaClass shared a blog post Comparing Provers: Starknet and Polygon.
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Noam Nisan shared a paper about tokenomics.
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L2s can horizontally scale only without compromising trust-minimization. Wei Dai argued in favor of trust-minimized systems that can horizontally scale.
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Elliptic curves have made their way into all kinds of modern cryptography. Here is the Developer's Guide to Application-Specific Elliptic Curves.
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MolochDAO shared a figure about the pros and cons of private voting mechanisms.
ZK and rollup updates 🗞️
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Arbitrum passed 1B daily volume.
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A well-written article about Merkle Tree by Sovereign Labs.
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Some updates on o1js (library for cryptography).
MEV/PBS/staking research and updates 🔍
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Tarun Chitra explained the differences between PBS and Jito (MEV on Solana).
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Celsius (ETH staking service) will unstake their existing ETH holdings. 16,000 validators entered to queue for unstaking.
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A new approach to transaction ordering in a modular world by Maven11 Research.
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How restaking acts as a shared security layer, Bell Curve explained with Sreeram Kannan.
Education and events 🎫
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A high-level Introduction to ZK and SNARKS course.
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ZKHack IV has started! This virtual hackathon includes various tutorials and puzzles.
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ZK auditing fellowship has been started by yAcademy.
Additional resources 📖
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The Columbia CryptoEconomics Workshop playlist has dropped.
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A great lecture by Andrej Bauer about formalizing invisible mathematics.
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Celestia explained how their bridge works.
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Encrypted mempool and shared sequencers by AJ Park.
Meme of the week 👅
https://x.com/ASchmidt1024/status/1745331972472254615?s=20
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