Taiko Labs

Today, the Taiko Alpha-1 testnet (a1) is live - our first public testnet! We’ve codenamed this testnet, Snæfellsjökull. Be on the lookout for other Icelandic volcano releases as we approach mainnet over 2023! 🌋 We’re thrilled to reach this milestone towards our Type-1 ZK-EVM, with the ultimate goal of scaling Ethereum in a manner that is as secure and seamless for developers and users as possible. We still have a long way to go, but we hope you will join us in using and testing our first pub...

This post explores definitions and high-level ideas of rollup decentralization. It does not cover deep technical detail about decentralizing rollup implementations. We identify Taiko as a decentralized Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup. Ethereum-equivalent - the moniker of a type-1 ZK-EVM - is a technical design decision that we describe here. In this post, we’d like to talk about the other descriptor in that statement: decentralized. We will explore:What is the definition of a decentralized roll...

Taiko Community Update #3 has arrived 🥁 We do these to provide transparency into the progress we’ve made since our last community update. These updates represent our most recent two-week work iteration.Team wide ✨Added the MIT License to taiko-mono.Posted a blog entry: Taiko is fully open source.Updated the Taiko website at taiko.xyz.Added protocol contract documentation to the website.Added language channels to the Discord. Join us!Minted 2022 Taiko Contributor (Founding Year) GitPOAPs.ZK-E...

Ethereum has come a long way in its seven-year life — changing the world, in our opinion — but it is only just getting started. Scaling Ethereum at a technical level, as ZK-EVMs aim to do, is just one (huge) part of the equation in bringing it to the world - there is also the need to… actually bring it to the world! That’s why we are initiating the Taiko Ambassador Program. We need help in spreading the word that Ethereum scales securely and that you can use your existing solidity code, dapp,...

Hey everyone 👋, we want to update you on the progress we’ve made since our last community update.R&DNode & ClientDeployed a Grafana dashboard to monitor our own testnet nodes / services.Deployed HIVE for the L2 nodes / services integration tests.ProtocolPublished the initial tokenomics proposal (in review), which can be viewed at the latest whitepaper.Reduced commitBlock gas cost (in review).BridgeMade progress on the bridge relayer and bridge UI.Moved stack from React to Svelte + Tailwind +...

This blog post was authored by d1onys1us. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @indraynor. Taiko is fully open source -- you can view all the code on our GitHub. By "open source" we mean free to see the source and modify it. Specifically, we use the permissive MIT license for all of our code except our minimally modified geth fork, where we maintain the original GPL license. Here is a summary of the code powering Taiko:Protocol smart contractstaikoxyz/taiko-mono: MITL2 node softwaretaikoxyz/taik...

Taiko scales Ethereum in a manner that emulates Ethereum as closely as possible - both technically and non-technically. More specifically, Taiko is an Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup, scaling Ethereum by supporting all EVM opcodes in a layer-2 architecture that is decentralized, permissionless, and secure. Ethereum represents an enormous leap forward in the mechanisms available for human coordination and personal freedom. As a global, credibly neutral settlement layer, Ethereum provides strong ...

Dear Taiko community, Welcome to our first community update. We would like to share with you Taiko’s progress during Q3, and will continue to do so every quarter. Of course, there will also be interim updates more frequently.TeamIn July, Brecht Devos joined Taiko as our third co-founder. Brecht used to work for Loopring as the Chief Architect, but over the last 12 months or so, he had been working on PSE’s zkEVM with researchers and engineers from the Ethereum Foundation and other open-source...

Taiko is building a Type 1 (Ethereum-equivalent) ZK-EVM. What benefits come from using a Type 1 ZK-EVM? To answer this, we need to understand the changes a ZK-EVM can make at various levels and the tradeoffs they incur. Let’s learn together. This post makes a few assumptions about your understanding of Ethereum. We are going to suggest that you first understand the following:What a ZK-EVM (EVM-compatible ZK-Rollup) is at a high levelHow Ethereum stores data in the form of a Merkle Patricia Tr...