The Rollup Coaster is a bi-weekly newsletter that dives into the fascinating world of Ethereum, exploring the latest in rollups, zero-knowledge proofs, MEV-PBS, and much more.

This edition is written by Taiko’s Community Advocate Jünger.

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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.

• Dencun will activate on the Ethereum mainnet at epoch 269568 on March 13, 2024 at 13:55 UTC.

• Economic security flippening! Ethereum is presently secured with $105B.

• Starkware and Polygon announce a new mathematical approach to improve the performance of STARKs: Circle STARK. Using elliptic curves and special primes, this approach can process data points faster and more efficiently, offering significant improvements, especially for architectures processing large-scale data sets.

• Stwo: Circle-STARK-based prover announced by Starkware.

• Computer systems split into two categories: those that can run DOOM, and those that can’t. RISC Zero’s zkVM has joined the pantheon of systems that can run DOOM. A fun project by the RISC Zero team.

• Kakarot, a Cairo-based zkEVM, published a blog post describing its vision and technical details.

• Nethermind published a detailed paper comparing zkSync and Starknet in terms of on-chain proof verification, compression efficiency, L2 fees, user operation distributions, etc.

• SNARK implementations are not mature yet. The new paper revealed the potential vulnerabilites in SNARKs. “SoK: What don’t we know? Understanding Security Vulnerabilities in SNARKs”

• A new Zero Knowledge Podcast episode is out. In this episode, with Ingonyama, ZK hardware was discussed.

• Remainder: A new ZKML prover announced by Modulus Labs.

• Succinct Labs announced SP1 Reth.

• Polygon released an update to their zkEVM with ROM optimization.

• Avail Nexus: A ZK-Rollup Built for cross-rollup and cross-ecosystem settlement.

• Reducing operation cost on Optimism.

• Primev uncovered the role of preconfirmations in EIP-4844: Censorship, Latency, and Preconfirmations in the Blob Market.

• Discussions about how sequencers could hand over sequencing rights to SUAVE: Integrating SUAVE with Astria Rollups.

• Learn & Share schedule for March and April. Don't miss these tutorials where many cryptography papers can be discussed in an educational way.

• PSE announced Acceleration Program for ZK, MPC, and FHE ideas.

• The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring a 4844 data analysis and visualization blog post. Check it out.

• EVM From Stratch.

• Understanding the Intersection of Crypto and AI by Galaxy Research.

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