Jon Charbonneau

Aug 7

Endgame: Proof of Governance

Thank you to Hasu, Mike Neuder, Konstantin Lomashuk, Sacha, Josh Bowen, Tomasz Stańczak, Chris Hager, and Toni Wahrstätter for great conversations around this topic.IntroductionThis post expands upon my conversation with Hasu in our first episode of Uncommon Core 2.0 as well as my talk at Modular Summit. I’ll cover the following:Proof-of-stake (PoS) - The key motivations for PoS and its relevant properties are often deeply misunderstood, particularly “economic security” and “decentralization....

Jon Charbonneau

Apr 27

SUAVE, Anoma, Shared Sequencers, & Super Builders

Thank you to Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, Tarun Chitra, getsqt, Ben Fisch, Evan Forbes, Christopher Goes, and apriori for incredibly valuable insights, feedback, and review of this post. Thank you to Robert Miller, Hasu, Shea Ketsdever, Josh Bowen, and many others for great discussions around some of the topics here as well.IntroductionThis post further analyzes SUAVE and shared sequencers as a follow up to my last: Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 @jon_charb This is the complete guide to: - Sequencer dece...

Jon Charbonneau

May 26

Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work

Thank you Kelvin Fichter for the awesome discussions getting philosophical on rollups, and for review of this post. Also thank you for the cartoons and starting the bridge ≠ rollup crusade lately. Thank you Mustafa Al-Bassam, Christopher Goes, James Prestwich, Nick White, & Cem Özer for feedback and related conversations as well. And a huge thanks to Toghrul Maharramov for review and fun back and forths! Especially since we disagreed on a bunch of stuff here :) Editor’s Note - The original po...