The Rollup Coaster #31

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, TEEs, MEV/PBS and much more.

This edition is written by Taiko’s Researcher 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 🎢

• Max Resnick joined the Bankless episode. Great topics covered by Max like the state of rollups, the future of L2s, based rollups and scale the L1 itself.

• Succinct Labs has announced a collaboration with Optimism. Now it's possible to build a ZK rollup with SP1 on top of OP Chain.

ZK and rollup research 🧙

• Risc Zero published an article discussing Risc Zero’s zkVM and approaches to existing acceleration initiatives like Jolt, Binius and Circle STARKs.

• Ingonyama published a paper on implementation of Mersenne 31 field.

• Zellic discovered two vulnerabilities in Groth16 proofs.

• Mike Neuder shared his take on Ethereum’ future.

• The Rollup hosted Justin Drake. Current rollup landscape and future of L1/L2s were discussed.

• Jolt, open-sourced the arithmetization library which based on 256-bit field. Here is the mental model of using big fields on Jolt.

• Brecht shared an explanation of Gwyneth, a synchronously composable based rollup.

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• Elias wrote an article discussing the challenges that may face Kakarot.

• Bottazzi shared his notes on Extractable Witness Encryption for KZG.

• Ingonyama introduced zkDL++. This tech allows to hide a watermark in the image thanks to ZK.

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ZK and rollup updates 🗞️

• The ZKsync governance system went live.

• Thanks to Starknet’ last upgrade, L1 cost reduced and L2 throughput increased significantly.

• Risc Zero’s ZK proofs can be verified on Starknet now.

• Fabric and Polygon announced their collaboration to build real time proof for Agglayer.

• Lurk (zkVM) announced the new version.

• Polygon announced Miden v4.

• Ingonyama announced ICICLE v3

Based sequencing and preconfirmations 😎

• The Rollup hosted Cecilia and Brecht from Taiko for the new initiative Booster Rollup.

• The Rollup hosted Based Rollups AMA.

• Spire(based appchain stack) announced the whitepaper.

• Pricing Ethereum Blocks with Vol Markets with Implications for Preconfirmations

• Cochran touched to based rollups in context of monetization of ETH.

TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) 🫣

• Zero Knowledge Podcast hosted Andrew Miller in the last episode. Andrew's background, his evolution into TEEs, and the current status of TEEs were discussed.

• Applying TEEs to consensus, joint work by Livshits and Miller; “Rorqual: Speeding up Narwhal with TEEs”

MEV/PBS🔍

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• Latest Protocol Symposium episode covered PeerDAS.

Additional resources 📚

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