The Rollup Coaster is a bi-weekly newsletter that dives into the fascinating world of Ethereum, exploring the latest in rollups, zero-knowledge proofs, based sequencing/preconfirmations, MEV/PBS/SUAVE, and much more.
This edition is written by Taiko’s Community Advocate Jünger.
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Highlights 🎢
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Vitalik shared a blog post about Binius, a highly efficient proofs over binary fields. Thanks to binary fields, hardware-friendly proofs are now a reality!
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Offchain Labs disclosed some vulnerabilities in the OP Stack fault proofs. These vulnerabilities allowed attackers to claim dishonest rewards.
ZK and rollup research 🧙
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Irreducible (Ulvetanna rebranded to Irreducible) shared a blog post introducing the FPGA-accelerated Polygon zkEVM prover. 40% faster than previously reported by Polygon’s zkProver.
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Andrija Novakovic (Geometry Research) and Liam Eagen (Zeta) shared a paper on how to optimize pairings in snarks and on-chain verifiers, by removing final exponentiation: On Proving Pairs.
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Paradigm published an article explaining the roadmap of Reth to scale Ethereum. The article also suggested the term "gas per second" instead of "transaction per second" for performance metrics.
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Cysic organized a panel discussion on ZK-ASIC with Justin Drake, Ye Zhang, and more. The recording is available here.
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Verifying Nova proofs onchain in Ethereum is now a reality! Sonobe aims to provide a modular library that implements different folding schemes.
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Notes on ZK-friendliness of Verkle Trees by Lubarov from Polygon.
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New research paper by PSE: “Greco: Fast Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Valid FHE RLWE Ciphertexts Formation”.
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Bonsol: Verifiable Compute for Solana. Bonsol allows to create a verifiable executable over private and public data and integrate the results into Solana smart contracts.
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Sin7y (the team behind Ola zkVM) shared a detailed study and comparison of the two generations of Poseidon hash functions used in Plonky2 and Plonky3.
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Tamatran opened a discussion on the financial market of blobspace. Thanks to this design, rollups can hedge their costs when they are posting blobs.
ZK and rollup updates 🗞️
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RiscZero introduced Steel: View call proof library.
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Worldcoin announced its own rollup with OP Stack infrastructure.
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ICICLE v2 update by Ingonyama.
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Matter Labs open-sourced the LLVM Compiler.
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Delphinius open-sourced the ZKWASM prover.
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Scroll has announced Bernoulli upgrade that pushed blobs on Scroll.
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Zama announced the latest updates about its products(tFHE, fhEVM).
Based sequencing and preconfirmations 😎
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Primev shared two blog posts in the previous two weeks: The first post examines current models for an Ethereum preconfirmation auction.
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The second post focuses on blob posting strategies used by blob producers and provides quantitative analysis for strategy efficiency metrics such as how fast a blob is included in a slot and the priority fee premium paid for that slot inclusion rate.
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The LimeChain team shared a new design of based sequencing. This design retains the basic structure of native-based sequencing, but has more detailed explanations of the cold-start problem by providing higher incentives for early participants.
Restaking/proof-prover-verifier markets🗿
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A brief overview of EigenLayer by Matt.
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HackVC published an article about what Aligned Layer (proof aggregation and verification layer) is.
MEV/PBS/SUAVE🔍
Additional resources 📚
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A journey into zero knowledge proofs by David Wong.
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Reproducibility in Machine Learning by Tomer Solberg from Ingonyama.
Meme of the week 😆
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