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 🎢
- Blobs have arrived on Ethereum! Transacting on rollups has become cheaper thanks to the successful EIP-4844 implementation.
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Vitalik proposed a contingency plan for an Ethereum hard fork to secure user assets in case of a quantum computing breach. He emphasized the need to shift to quantum-resistant wallets.
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Based sequencing is starting to sprout in the Ethereum ecosystem. Espresso introduced the based sequencing marketplace: Based Espresso.
ZK and rollup research 🧙
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Ingonyama published Sumcheck 201. The paper examines sum-check protocols in terms of parallelizable computing on devices such as GPUs.
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Eli Ben-Sasson shared his views on Circle STARKs.
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Modulus completed the first on-chain LLM (1.5 billion parameter GPT2-XL model) proof on Ethereum.
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The article by Aztec discussed the differences between proof generation for privacy-preserving ZK rollups and general-purpose rollups. It emphasized the importance of maintaining confidentiality of specific transaction data and explored client-side proof generation for private functions.
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Scroll team published a new paper: Parallel Zero Knowledge Virtual Machine.
ZK and rollup updates 🗞️
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Dencun upgrade on Polygon.
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The Bell Curve episode in which Uma Roy explains the ZK ecosystem and Succinct's position.
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New update on Succinct’s SP1.
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DelphiniusLabs shared the current performance status of ZKWASM.
MEV/PBS/staking research and updates 🔍
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Bertcmiller touched on the effects of EIP-4844 on block building.
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Building private batch swaps on SUAVE and increased privacy by settling on Aztec: Private Batch Swaps using Aztec and SUAVE.
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Anoma Resource Machine: the part of Anoma that is responsible for creation, composition, and verification of transactions.
Education and events 🎫
- zkML for Proof Markets by Nil Foundation on Mar 18, 5pm GMT.
Additional resources 📖
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An introduction to the Elliptic Curve prerequisites.
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Deep dive to resources of STARKs math.
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