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.

• Vitalik discussed the enhancement of Ethereum staking decentralization through the introduction of more anti-correlation incentives. The proposal aims to penalize correlated failures among validators to incentivize decentralization by reducing the advantage that large stakers have over smaller ones.

• Vitalik also discussed the activation of the Dencun, also known as blobs. Blobs are now cheaper than calldata, marking a crucial milestone in Ethereum's scaling efforts. This transition signifies a shift from a "zero-to-one" scaling problem to a "one-to-N" challenge, requiring ongoing work to enhance blob count and optimize rollups' utilization of each blob. Additionally, the discussion includes the implementation of EIP-7623 to set limits on block sizes and enhance safety in increasing blob targets and the L1 gas limit.

• Aztec discussed based rollup in the context of reducing block time in a new post.

• A paper has been published that examines accumulation schemes built only from hash functions.

• Lagrange published Reckle Trees paper. Reckle is a new vector commitment based on succinct recursive arguments and Merkle trees.

• Ingonyama described a new game mechanic enabled by ZK and MPC in the blog post, Cryptographic Fog of War.

• Alex discussed the ZK proofs in the context of blockchain scalability on The Block Podcast episode.

• Ingonyama announced the Aleo IP Core, a privacy-focused L1 with a consensus mechanism based on KZG puzzles. It incentivizes efficient provers to solve ZK coinbase puzzles, promoting demand for ZK proofs.

• Gevulot devnet is live. It is possible to test the network by running Taiko’s open-source prover.

• Optimism enabled fraud proofs on Sepolia testnet.

• Citrea published Clementine, a trust-minimized two-way peg program.

• Blobs announcement from Scroll.

• Starknet’s block size is getting bigger.

• RiscZero shared zkVM’s roadmap.

• Mike Neuder published a research post explaining the risks of LSTs.

• Anoma, intent machine for Ethereum.

• ZK is wandering around Athens. Two exciting events will be organized;

  • ZKAccelerate on April 11th by Ingonyama.

  • ZKsummit11 on April 10th by ZeroKnowledgeFM.

• FHE Resources in crypto.

• opp/ai: Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI in Blockchain.

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