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Special thanks to Nikete Della Penna, RJ, Matthew Finestone, and Brecht Devos for review and valuable insights.TLDRIn this article, we “map” the current landscape of L2 MEV, thinking about different MEV consequences for different L2 designs. We also briefly overview different ways of L2s decentralization and how it might impact L2 MEV.Wat is MEVDisclaimer: feel free to skip if you are familiar with MEV. For a detailed MEV explanation, check the article “Ethereum is a dark forest” by Paradigm ...

This is the 7th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the second edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 7th edition contributors: snmyx, yona. Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own research. Hold on ti...

Taiko’s fourth testnet has arrived! Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is our first experiment with inception layers and a new staking based proving design. We are launching this testnet in order to test two things:Deploying Taiko on Taiko as an L3 inception layer (a rollup on a rollup 😏)Testing a new staking based prover economicsOur alpha-N releases are always experiments to test our hypothesis on the protocol and build a more robust system. So let's dive in!Inception layersInception layers are a n...

TLDR: This article explores the approaches of different L2s to cross-chain messaging from rollups’ perspective, focusing more on trustless cross-chain communication. We briefly explain the direct state reading approach, light client approach, and storage proofs. We also mention proof aggregating mechanism, trusted-third party cross-chain messaging, and core ZK-cross-chain solutions. In the end, we cover examples of how different L2s approach cross-chain messaging today.ContentsPart I: Introdu...

This is the 9th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the 4th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 9th edition contributors: Alex_ADEdge, kshyun28, BluePillow alexanderblv, yona Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or co...

Alpha-3 has been drumming along for one month now! Let's take a look at what’s happened.Stats updatesThree weeks ago, our stats were: 📤 Unique proposers → 150 ✅ Unique provers → 67 🕒 Average block time → 3.5 seconds 🤝 Total transactions → 1,312,898 🧱 Total blocks → 185,351 💻 Wallet addresses → 207,063See our tweet thread for a full recap: https://twitter.com/taikoxyz/status/1669605951576625153And as of today, our stats are: 📤 Unique proposers → 3469 ✅ Unique provers → 462 🕒 Averag...

This is the 6th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks.And this is the first edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community!Special thanks to 6th edition contributors: umede, ex_scxr, msfew, anon212, yona. Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your ow...

We are starting an open research community to collaborate on the creation of the ZK research digest and share rare discoveries and valuable content to learn, grow and build together. Everyone is welcome to participate and appear as a contributor to the edition!ContextIn March, we started a bi-weekly ZK-Roller-Coaster – tracking and investigating the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. Five editions have been released. You can check all of them on the Taiko mi...

We are super excited to announce the launch of Taiko’s first community grant program! 🌍🏗️ The aim of this program is to discover and support innovative community members that build up and build on the Taiko ecosystem, with the financial incentives and developer resources needed to bring their visions to life. Despite still being in our testnet phase we think there is immense value in supporting ambitious builders from Day 0, and allowing them to participate in the network’s potential succes...

We are thrilled to announce that we have raised $22 million across two funding rounds and launched our latest testnet (Alpha-3) in our mission to build a decentralized and Ethereum-equivalent (Type 1) ZK-EVM. Taiko’s goal is to scale Ethereum in a manner that emulates it as closely as possible - both technologically and ideologically. To that end, we are proud to partner with a group of leading investors who share our vision and have put their trust in us. Our rounds are led by Sequoia China ...

This is the 8th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. And this is the third edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster produced by the Taiko community! Special thanks to 8th edition contributors: BluePillow and Alexander Belyaev! Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own ...

Today we’re excited to share that the Taiko alpha-3 testnet, Grímsvötn, is live! This is the next step on the road to a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-EVM, and this testnet will be critical in testing much of the network design and components. Relative to alpha-2, the most prominent changes are:New protocol economics design and implementationProposers AND provers are permissionless (alpha-1 had permissionless proposers, alpha-2 had permissionless provers)L3 implementation: inception la...