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The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko 5th Trail Challenge!

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko campaign is heating up, and we're excited to announce Trail 5! This week, we're introducing the Monk Faction Badge and inviting you to mint your unique Taiko name and create a smart account on PoPP. Let's dive into the details of this week's challenge and how you can earn your badge. Trail 5 Challenge: From July 22 to July 28, mint your Taiko name using DotTaiko Domains or ZNS, or mint a TBA smart account on PoPP. This is a fantastic opportu...

The Trailblazers Trail 4: Defi on Taiko

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko campaign carries on, and we’re excited to announce the Trail 4 challenge! This week, we’re introducing the Master Faction Badge and inviting you to dive into the world of DeFi by creating a position on any of our partner protocols. Whether you choose to borrow, lend, provide liquidity, or create a position on a perpetual contract, you have the chance to earn not just Trailblazers XP but yield from our ecosystem partners as well!Trail 4 Challenge:The Trailblazer...

The Rollup Coaster #26

The Rollup Coaster is a bi-weekly newsletter that dives into the fascinating world of Ethereum, exploring the latest in rollups, zero-knowledge proofs, based sequencing/preconfirmations, MEV/PBS/SUAVE, 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 🎢Vitalik discussed ways to impr...

Taiko one month into mainnet: Explosive growth and ambitious plans (June 2024)

Welcome to the very first Taiko mainnet update! In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at what’s been happening in the Taiko ecosystem since mainnet launch exactly a month ago (spoiler alert: a LOT has been happening!) Let’s start with some exciting statistics.Mainnet stats 📈Metrics from total value locked (TVL) to total transactions to transactions per second (TPS) since the launch have been impressive to say the least.Source: L2beat.com.Here are some metrics (as of June 28): TVL: $1...

Who Pays Me?

In order for a network to be self-sustaining, there need to be mechanisms in place that help regulate the way things are done. This is especially important in the context of blockchains, where smart contracts enable trustless and transparent transactions. Different types of network participants play varying roles to ensure these complex systems function as needed. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Network participants must be somehow incentivized to play their roles. This is where pa...

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko Continues with Week 3 Challenge!

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko campaign continues with some great news for the new trail! We’re excited to announce the 3rd trail will last for 2 weeks! That's right, you heard it right! As we anticipated, we noticed that we have a community of gamers and we know that for any serious gamer - one week of playing any game is too short, so we made this trail last for 2 weeks.Week 3 Challenge:From June 24 to July 7, when you play games on Taiko and perform in-game on-chain activity you will...

Scheduled BCR Protocol Upgrade for Taiko Mainnet

We are upgrading the Taiko BCR mainnet protocol to version 1.7.0 on July 1st. This release is ABI-compatible with the current Taiko-geth and client release, but includes underlying protocol changes affecting block proposers and provers.Hekla upgraded alreadyWe have upgraded the Hekla protocol, which may cause some block proposals and proving transactions to fail. We encourage all Hekla block proposers and provers to update their transaction parameters at their earliest convenience.Breaking ch...

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko Continues with Week 2 Challenge!

The Trailblazers: Call of Taiko campaign is forging ahead, and we’re excited to announce the Week 2 challenge! This week, we’re introducing the Robot Faction Badge and inviting you to complete a bridging transaction to the Taiko mainnet. Let’s dive into the details of this week’s challenge and how you can earn your badge.Week 2 Challenge:From June 17 to June 23, your task is to complete a bridging transaction to the Taiko mainnet. The more liquidity you bridge, the higher you can rank on the ...

Introducing Raiko, Taiko’s multi-prover

Attention Taikonauts, we’ve got some exciting news to share! We’re excited to announce the launch of Raiko, Taiko’s multi-prover. Raiko is our new Taiko and Ethereum block prover. It is an integrated environment that builds, runs and benchmarks zkVM targets. Raiko currently supports Sp1, Risc0 and SGX, with ongoing efforts to integrate Jolt and Powdr, as well as Amazon Nitro.Our approach to multi-proofsTaiko has been at the forefront of decentralizing proof supply chains. In our view, multi-p...

Trailblazers Kicks Off: 12 Million TAIKO prize pool for the first season!

TL;DR To kickstart an amazing journey through Taiko Mainnet, we’ve allocated rewards for both our users and dApps building on Taiko. 10 million TAIKO will be allocated to our users, and 2 million Taiko will be allocated for dApps on Taiko during our first season which will last for 3 months! To dive deeper into Trailblazers, we suggest reading our blog explaining the program in detail: https://taiko.mirror.xyz/MghuAEQKsqS5Y3hNtq8-9Jv93NEE_1duZKmBE6HKHRQ If you want to see your profile and how...

L2 MEV wat

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 ...

Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is live!

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...

Based Rollup FAQ

Special thanks to Brecht, Archie, and Dave for comments and review. TL;DR In this article, we briefly cover a general rollup architecture and the rollup properties required for long-term robustness and safety. Then, we mention the origination history of the based rollup and unpack its architecture. In the FAQ section, we answer questions about based rollups. Disclaimer: rollup definitions struggle from lack of alignment sometimes. In this article, we refer to the rollup layers taxonomy provid...

ZK-EVM types: Ethereum-equivalent, EVM-equivalent, Type 1, Type 4, and other cryptic buzzwords

TL;DR A year ago, quite a few ZK-EVMs announced the upcoming launch of testnets. The community wondered what the difference between all these projects was and what Ethereum-equivalence, EVM-equivalence, and other popped-up buzzwords meant. To bring clarity, Vitalik wrote an article, “The different types of ZK-EVMs,” providing a taxonomy for different types of ZK-EVMs and explaining the difference. The core idea is: Type 1 (e.g., Taiko) is perfectly Ethereum-equivalent, and Type 4 (e.g., zkSyn...

Closing in on Stage 1: The Shasta Upgrade Is Almost Here!

A redesign of Taiko’s protocol that reduces proposing costs by over 20x and supports permissionless preconfirmations.

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Wrapping Up Season 6, Trailblazer Role and the Road Ahead

Greetings, Trailblazers. Learn about the Season 6 rewards and the future of Trailblazers program.