The Rollup Coaster is a newsletter diving into Ethereum’s dynamic ecosystem, focusing on rollups, zero-knowledge proofs, based sequencing/preconfirmations, TEEs, MEV/PBS, and more.
This edition is crafted by Taiko’s Community Success Manager Oleh.
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Disclaimer: This newsletter is not financial advice nor a reflection of Taiko’s official stance. Conduct your own research.
Highlights 🎢
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Vitalik Buterin released a series of six comprehensive articles outlining Ethereum’s roadmap:
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The Merge — Shift from PoW to the more sustainable PoS
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The Surge — Scaling through sharding and rollups
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The Scourge — MEV minimization and transparency
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The Verge — Verkle trees to reduce data storage
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The Purge — Reducing historical data load
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The Splurge — Final tweaks for Ethereum optimization
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ZK and Rollup Research 🧙
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Polynya’s article explores Ethereum L1 scaling roadmap.
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Fede Intern’s discusses building a fully decentralized zk-rollup, reclaiming crypto’s original values.
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0xBreadguy explores finality in zk-rollups, discussing how zk-rollups can achieve faster and more secure transaction finalization.
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Vacp2p delves into testing six promising zkVMs to identify the best fit for their Nescience zkVM architecture.
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2077 Research examines Ethereum’s rollup-centric scaling approach, highlighting the need for better integration between Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions.
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Pod Network has posted a research introducing a blockless, leaderless auction system for fast, fair, and censorship-resistant auctions in decentralized environments.
ZK and Rollup Updates 🗞️
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Fuel Network launches Mainnet with Fuel Ignition.
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Uniswap introduces UniChain — a new Layer 2 for DeFi.
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Scroll ZKP takes its first step toward decentralization with the launch of the token.
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zkSync announces its first governance proposal.
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0xCygaar highlights a new EIP proposal to boost Ethereum’s throughput by 50%.
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Milkroad reports a new all-time high as Ethereum Layer 2s surpass 32M active addresses in September.
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Astria announces that its mainnet is now live, introducing the Decentralized Sequencing Layer.
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Kraken announces Ink, a new Layer 2 solution launching in 2025.
Based Sequencing and Preconfirmations 😎
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Gwyneth from Taiko explains preconfirmation for rollups.
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Risc Zero has achieved 25 MHz in e2e performance with Taiko.
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Lemniscap publishes “Make Ethereum Whole Again”, a report on based rollups, preconfirmations, and their potential to solve key challenges in Ethereum's future.
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FabricCrypto announces that Boundless will be accelerated with the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU), a new class of processor designed specially for cryptography.
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Risc Zero introduces Steel 1.0 - a production-ready smart contract prover bringing boundless runtime to EVM apps.
TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) 🫣
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Fleek explains Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and why projects leverage them.
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Polygon Ventures explores the role of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in the rise of appchains.
MEV/PBS 🔍
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Kakia1989 presents a new paper examining the impact of the TimeBoost policy on arbitrageurs and MEV.
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Nethermind’s preconfirming solution integrates the existing Ethereum PBS pipeline into based rollup block building.
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