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.
Highlights 🎢
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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.
ZK and rollup research 🧙
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Flashbots published a research on pricing of blobs.
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Primev published a research on blob pricing in volatile market.
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Muhammad from Delphi, published a research on transaction ordering policies and value accrual of rollups.
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Espresso shared updates on the decentralisation of Timeboost (Arbitrum’s new transaction order), which it developed in partnership with Arbitrum.
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Joshua wrote a blog that explain some concerns of Arbitrum’s new transaction order mechanism Timeboost.
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Taiko published a blog post on Binius, an idea of building SNARKs over binary fields.
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Argument wrote a blog post about RISC-V zkVMs.
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Telos Foundation shared a new article on SNARKtor, a standart proof aggregation.
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The Rollup episode covered the debate between zkVMs vs ZK Circuits.
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Improving SP1’s performance with using GPUs.
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“How Does Delayed Proving Work?” by Hyle.
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Rareskill’s new blog post, The Intuition Behind ECDSA.
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CairoVM book by zksecurity.
ZK and rollup updates 🗞️
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zkSync announced permissionless proving.
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Aztec announced the winner of Alpha Build 1.
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Starknet open-sourced Stone v3 prover.
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Taiko Grant Factory Hackathon has started.
Based sequencing and preconfirmations 😎
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BREAD covered based rollups on his educational post.
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Init4tech published a research on fork-choice rules and their effect to based rollups.
TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) 🫣
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Flashbots is experimenting with Intel TDX to trustlessly capture bottom-of-block arbitrages without exposing frontrunning risks.
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Poetic Technologies proposed the open-source TEE initiative.
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Automata announced a library to verify TEEs on-chain in unified interface.
MEV/PBS🔍
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Ethereum’s new open-sourced block building/commitment sidecar Commit-Boost is now live!
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Primev introduced cryptographic primitives in mev-commit to protect bidder’ privacy.
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