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.

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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 wrote a new blog post. He says that Ethereum alignment needs to be defined better. He suggests breaking alignment down into things like open-source standards, decentralization, and contributing to Ethereum and the broader world.

• Flashbots published a research on pricing of blobs.

• Primev published a research on blob pricing in volatile market.

• Steelmanning a blob throughput increase for Pectra.

• Muhammad from Delphi, published a research on transaction ordering policies and value accrual of rollups.

• Espresso shared updates on the decentralisation of Timeboost (Arbitrum’s new transaction order), which it developed in partnership with Arbitrum.

• Joshua wrote a blog that explain some concerns of Arbitrum’s new transaction order mechanism Timeboost.

• Taiko published a blog post on Binius, an idea of building SNARKs over binary fields.

• Argument wrote a blog post about RISC-V zkVMs.

• Telos Foundation shared a new article on SNARKtor, a standart proof aggregation.

• The Rollup episode covered the debate between zkVMs vs ZK Circuits.

• Improving SP1’s performance with using GPUs.

• “How Does Delayed Proving Work?” by Hyle.

• Rareskill’s new blog post, The Intuition Behind ECDSA.

• 

  ZKM

  @ProjectZKM

  

  The recent @zk_monk BootCamp session with ZKM Senior Cryptographer, Jeroen van de Graaf Ph.D, is now available to watch on YouTube: cli.re/dmD9x8
  
  In this session, Professor Jeroen offers a very comprehensive high-level introduction to zero-knowledge and SNARKs

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  1:24 PM • Sep 24, 2024

• CairoVM book by zksecurity.

• zkSync announced permissionless proving.

• Aztec announced the winner of Alpha Build 1.

• Starknet open-sourced Stone v3 prover.

• Taiko Grant Factory Hackathon has started.

• BREAD covered based rollups on his educational post.

• Init4tech published a research on fork-choice rules and their effect to based rollups.

• Flashbots is experimenting with Intel TDX to trustlessly capture bottom-of-block arbitrages without exposing frontrunning risks.

• Poetic Technologies proposed the open-source TEE initiative.

• Automata announced a library to verify TEEs on-chain in unified interface.

• Ethereum’s new open-sourced block building/commitment sidecar Commit-Boost is now live!

• 

  Charlie

  @_charlienoyes

  

  Builders, relays, and validators spend the majority of their time computing state roots - rather than on execution.
  
  This latency is unnecessary. @MaxResnick1 and I propose a simple fix: delay stateRoot by a block so that it can be computed in parallel.

  

  ethresear.ch

  Proposal: Delay stateRoot Reference to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency

  Proposal: Delay stateRoot Reference to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency By: Charlie Noyes, Max Resnick Introduction Right now, each block header includes a stateRoot that represents the state...

  270

  5:18 PM • Sep 25, 2024

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  𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔 𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕥 𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕪

  @BigSky_7

  

  R1CS is like a series of interlocking puzzles...

  

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  11:29 AM • Sep 27, 2024

• 

  IEEE Spectrum

  @IEEESpectrum

  

  A Bendy RISC-V Processor

  

  spectrum.ieee.org

  A Bendy RISC-V Processor

  The new 6-mW open-source plastic chip can run machine learning tasks and operate while bent around a pencil

  8

  3:07 PM • Sep 25, 2024

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