The Rollup Coaster #22

March 18th, 2024

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.

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.
Based sequencing is starting to sprout in the Ethereum ecosystem. Espresso introduced the based sequencing marketplace: Based Espresso.

ZK and rollup research 🧙

Ingonyama published Sumcheck 201. The paper examines sum-check protocols in terms of parallelizable computing on devices such as GPUs.
Eli Ben-Sasson shared his views on Circle STARKs.
Modulus completed the first on-chain LLM (1.5 billion parameter GPT2-XL model) proof on Ethereum.
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.
Scroll team published a new paper: Parallel Zero Knowledge Virtual Machine.

ZK and rollup updates 🗞️

Dencun upgrade on Polygon.
The Bell Curve episode in which Uma Roy explains the ZK ecosystem and Succinct's position.
New update on Succinct’s SP1.
Decentralized identity verification with zkKYC by RiscZero
DelphiniusLabs shared the current performance status of ZKWASM.

MEV/PBS/staking research and updates 🔍

Bertcmiller touched on the effects of EIP-4844 on block building.
Building private batch swaps on SUAVE and increased privacy by settling on Aztec: Private Batch Swaps using Aztec and SUAVE.
Anoma Resource Machine: the part of Anoma that is responsible for creation, composition, and verification of transactions.