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ZK-Roller-Coaster #7

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...

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 ...

Taiko Labs raises $22 million in funding to build an Ethereum-equivalent (Type 1) ZK-EVM

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 ...

Taiko Alpha-3 Testnet is Live

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...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #6

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...

Community invite: help craft the ZK-research digest

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...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #5

This is the 5th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 tight! 🎢Spice of the weeks 🌶️Twice in a week, Ethereum had Mainnet Finality issues. Offchain Labs presented an analysis outlining the incident...

Taiko Community Update — Q1/2023

Below is a summary of Taiko’s Q1 2023. We know it’s mid-May and do apologize for the delay! We’ll try to release this closer to each quarter’s end going forward. Of course, you don’t have to wait for these to stay abreast of Taiko happenings—we try to share all the meaningful updates right as they happen: in bi-weekly GitHub changelogs, Taiko Tuesday weekly recaps, timely announcements, and for that matter, build right out in the open to begin with. But we do hope this format is helpful for t...

ZK-Roller-Coaster #4

This is the 4th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 tight! 🎢Spice of the weeks 🌶️Gitcoin announced a new approach to diversity projects: “50% of the project’s team must reflect the diversity of ...

Taiko Protocol Overview

Disclaimer: Taiko Protocol Design is still a work in progress. Below is its newest version, however, things might still change.Taiko follows the “decentralized from day 1” approach. Below is the protocol description. Taiko protocol consists of three stages: block proposal, validation, and proving. TLDR:Taiko is a type-1 ZK-EVM, meaning it is Ethereum-equivalent. That is, it implements the Ethereum Yellow Paper specifications;The block execution is deterministic once the block is appended to t...

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.