zk, zkVM, zkEVM and their Future
TL; DRZero-knowledge proof, which can guarantee computational integrity, correctness and privacy, has a lot of use cases in blockchain scaling and privacy.zk-SNARK and zk-STARK have their own advantages, and the combination of these two has more potential.zkVM empowers applications with zero-knowledge proofs, and zkVM can be categorized by instruction sets in mainstream, EVM, or newly-built ones.EVM compatibility includes EVM compatibility, equivalence, and specification-level compatibility.z...
(Almost) Everything about Rollup
This post focuses on the Layer2 Rollup universe of Ethereum (only including Secured Rollup), and will explore the good and bad of the current Rollups from the core concepts and mechanism design in an easy-to-understand way, and think about the potential routes and advantages and disadvantages of each of their future solutions in terms of decentralization, further scaling, composability, and additional features such as privacy. A Secured Rollup is a Rollup model like Arbitrum or Optimism, wher...
「Unified to Divided」Modular Blockchain and Data Availability Layer
0. Rollup’s BottleneckIf you read the previous post on Rollup I wrote, then you probably noticed that there was an intentional bug in the endgame comparison between Optimistic and zk Rollup. The conclusion was that Optimistic Rollup would outperform zk Rollup in the long run because there is no proving overhead. But in fact, Optimistic and zk Rollup actually take turns to take the lead in performance over time:Different types of Secured Rollups have different bottlenecks at different stages, ...
@HyperOracle, Prev @ForesightVen, @Google, @UnionPay Recent research is at HyperOracleBlog.eth's Mirror
zk, zkVM, zkEVM and their Future
TL; DRZero-knowledge proof, which can guarantee computational integrity, correctness and privacy, has a lot of use cases in blockchain scaling and privacy.zk-SNARK and zk-STARK have their own advantages, and the combination of these two has more potential.zkVM empowers applications with zero-knowledge proofs, and zkVM can be categorized by instruction sets in mainstream, EVM, or newly-built ones.EVM compatibility includes EVM compatibility, equivalence, and specification-level compatibility.z...
(Almost) Everything about Rollup
This post focuses on the Layer2 Rollup universe of Ethereum (only including Secured Rollup), and will explore the good and bad of the current Rollups from the core concepts and mechanism design in an easy-to-understand way, and think about the potential routes and advantages and disadvantages of each of their future solutions in terms of decentralization, further scaling, composability, and additional features such as privacy. A Secured Rollup is a Rollup model like Arbitrum or Optimism, wher...
「Unified to Divided」Modular Blockchain and Data Availability Layer
0. Rollup’s BottleneckIf you read the previous post on Rollup I wrote, then you probably noticed that there was an intentional bug in the endgame comparison between Optimistic and zk Rollup. The conclusion was that Optimistic Rollup would outperform zk Rollup in the long run because there is no proving overhead. But in fact, Optimistic and zk Rollup actually take turns to take the lead in performance over time:Different types of Secured Rollups have different bottlenecks at different stages, ...
@HyperOracle, Prev @ForesightVen, @Google, @UnionPay Recent research is at HyperOracleBlog.eth's Mirror
👀 Since Inscription and Ordinal, Bitcoin L2 is proliferating, even more so than Ethereum L2.
🥺 We need a neutral and reasonable mechanism to analyze these Bitcoin L2s.
✨ Fortunately these "@l2beat for Bitcoin L2" are emerging. 🧵

🫡 The security analysis and decentralization evaluation of Ethereum L2 has been led by @L2beat, and recently @growthepie.
These guys are doing legendary work on publicizing informations on Ethereum L2 for anyone.
🧠 Bitcoin L2 enters the realm of L2 as a brand new species.
🤯 The paradigm of Bitcoin L2 is completely different from Ethereum L2, so we need a new way of analyzing it.
Bridge Security
Degree of decentralization
Execution / DA Layer Difference
……
👀 Today, we see the following projects focused on analyzing the progress of the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem:
@BitcoinRollups
@BitcoinLayers
@Blockchair’s L2 Watch
@BitcoinRollups is an educational resource covering Bitcoin rollups.
You can find educational materials here. This can help you get the general ideas and concepts of Bitcoin Rollup and L2.
https://www.bitcoinrollups.io/
@BitcoinLayers further explores the different layers (or protocols) of Bitcoin L2.
You can know more about the L2 paradigms and designs of Bitcoin L2.
@Blockchair’s L2 Watch tracks the booming L2 Bitcoin ecosystem.
You can find almost all the Bitcoin L2 projects and their basic intro here. This is a super helpful landscape view for Bitcoin L2.
👀 Additionally, there are some public views and opinions on categorizing Bitcoin L2:
@BitcoinMagazine’s Editorial Policy
@hosseeb’s discussion
@januszg_’s view
@BitcoinMagazine published editorial policy on Bitcoin L2 coverage.
@BobBodily’s TLDR, and he also listed a few evaluations on Ethereum L2 perspective for implementing them on Bitcoin:
L2 cannot have its own token
Must be able to bridge back to L1
Cannot function without Bitcoin
Meta-protocols are ok (Ordinals, BRC-20)
@hosseeb raised the question “What are your feelings on Bitcoin L2s?”
@BobBodily in the discussion gave a clear picture on what we can build for Bitcoin L2, and what’s not possible right now.
@januszg_ pointed out the cool stuff happening in the Bitcoin scaling space, along with scams and noises.
🥺 Go back to @L2Beat. They extends to spaces outside L2 (the rollup layer) itself, such as L2’s Bridge, and probably Validium (https://twitter.com/bkiepuszewski/status/1768362982457639031).
Wen L2Beat for Bitcoin L2s by L2Beat?
🫡 All in all, we definitely need more public resources and education in any space in Crypto, especially L2!
🔥 Bitcoin L2 is going great!
👀 Since Inscription and Ordinal, Bitcoin L2 is proliferating, even more so than Ethereum L2.
🥺 We need a neutral and reasonable mechanism to analyze these Bitcoin L2s.
✨ Fortunately these "@l2beat for Bitcoin L2" are emerging. 🧵

🫡 The security analysis and decentralization evaluation of Ethereum L2 has been led by @L2beat, and recently @growthepie.
These guys are doing legendary work on publicizing informations on Ethereum L2 for anyone.
🧠 Bitcoin L2 enters the realm of L2 as a brand new species.
🤯 The paradigm of Bitcoin L2 is completely different from Ethereum L2, so we need a new way of analyzing it.
Bridge Security
Degree of decentralization
Execution / DA Layer Difference
……
👀 Today, we see the following projects focused on analyzing the progress of the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem:
@BitcoinRollups
@BitcoinLayers
@Blockchair’s L2 Watch
@BitcoinRollups is an educational resource covering Bitcoin rollups.
You can find educational materials here. This can help you get the general ideas and concepts of Bitcoin Rollup and L2.
https://www.bitcoinrollups.io/
@BitcoinLayers further explores the different layers (or protocols) of Bitcoin L2.
You can know more about the L2 paradigms and designs of Bitcoin L2.
@Blockchair’s L2 Watch tracks the booming L2 Bitcoin ecosystem.
You can find almost all the Bitcoin L2 projects and their basic intro here. This is a super helpful landscape view for Bitcoin L2.
👀 Additionally, there are some public views and opinions on categorizing Bitcoin L2:
@BitcoinMagazine’s Editorial Policy
@hosseeb’s discussion
@januszg_’s view
@BitcoinMagazine published editorial policy on Bitcoin L2 coverage.
@BobBodily’s TLDR, and he also listed a few evaluations on Ethereum L2 perspective for implementing them on Bitcoin:
L2 cannot have its own token
Must be able to bridge back to L1
Cannot function without Bitcoin
Meta-protocols are ok (Ordinals, BRC-20)
@hosseeb raised the question “What are your feelings on Bitcoin L2s?”
@BobBodily in the discussion gave a clear picture on what we can build for Bitcoin L2, and what’s not possible right now.
@januszg_ pointed out the cool stuff happening in the Bitcoin scaling space, along with scams and noises.
🥺 Go back to @L2Beat. They extends to spaces outside L2 (the rollup layer) itself, such as L2’s Bridge, and probably Validium (https://twitter.com/bkiepuszewski/status/1768362982457639031).
Wen L2Beat for Bitcoin L2s by L2Beat?
🫡 All in all, we definitely need more public resources and education in any space in Crypto, especially L2!
🔥 Bitcoin L2 is going great!
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