# ZK-Roller-Coaster #15 By [Taiko Labs](https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs) · 2023-10-25 --- This is the 15th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. Special thanks to 15th edition contributors: Hlpr, [Alexander B](https://twitter.com/alexander_blv). _Disclaimer: this is a collection of tweets, writings, videos, and other materials; these don’t express our opinion and may not necessarily be accurate. Please do (or continue) your own research._ Hold on tight! 🎢 Spice of the weeks 🍿 --------------------- * Scroll launched their [mainnet](https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1714267555307950451). The community is [indignant](https://twitter.com/apruden08/status/1714499263949074652?s=46&t=gR4jIfSf0nCEJOUYQTdrqA) if the network was really ready for the launch: “Mainnet” launch used to mean something specific: that a user could interact with a network permissionlessly in a way that didn’t require you to go through a server run by a privileged party.” ZK and rollups research 🧙 -------------------------- * Plonky3 [is getting](https://twitter.com/dlubarov/status/1711793158412271996?s=46&t=3v6zUqnLN0v6n80TLDxaFQ) faster! On the M1 Macbook Air, it can prove around 750 Keccak-f permutations per second, ~5x more than Starky. * The [article](https://zkproof.org/2023/10/23/zk-score-blog/) “ZK Score - ZK hardware ranking standard” by Omer Shlomovits and Lucy Williams. * The [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1503.pdf) “zk-Bench: A Toolset for Comparative Evaluation and Performance Benchmarking of SNARKs” by JENS ERNSTBERGER, STEFANOS CHALIASOS, GEORGE KADIANAKIS, SEBASTIAN STEINHORST, PHILIPP JOVANOVIC, ARTHUR GERVAIS, BENJAMIN LIVSHITS, and MICHELE ORRÙ. * Succinct Labs [announced](https://twitter.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1715409259809448378) the ZK light client. This primitive removes centralized multisigs with weak trust assumptions and enables the endgame of bridging via gas-efficient, fully onchain light clients. * The [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1614) “New proof systems and an OPRF from CSIDH” by Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem and Robi Pedersen. * The [recording](https://twitter.com/CarlBeek/status/1716544983774212516) of the inaugural RollCall. * The [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1611) “Power circuits: a new arithmetization for GKR-styled sumcheck” by Lev Soukhanov. * The [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02390.pdf) “Shared Sequencing and Latency Competition as a Noisy Contest” by Akaki Mamageishvili and Jan Christoph Schlegel. ZK and rollups updates 🎈 ------------------------- * Celestia [introduced](https://blog.celestia.org/the-celestia-foundation) the Celestia Foundation. * ZeroSync [implemented](https://www.theblock.co/post/253876/zerosync-implements-first-stark-based-zk-client-for-bitcoin) the first Stark-based ZK client for Bitcoin. * Aztec Labs [paid](https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork/status/1716825858474942886) $450,000 to independent security researcher lucash-dev as a part of the Bug Bounty Award. Non-ZK industry highlights and research 🎡 ------------------------------------------ * [Fhenix](https://twitter.com/FhenixIO/status/1706715505241821359): The first blockchain-powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption! * Vitalik’s [article](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/09/30/enshrinement.html) “Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?” followed up by a [summary](https://twitter.com/DavideCrapis/status/1709993255671050665?s=20) and some thoughts from davidecrapis.eth. * Some personal [views](https://twitter.com/potuz1/status/1709950453688222048?s=20) in ePBS misleading takes by Potuz. * A twitter [thread](https://twitter.com/MaxResnick1/status/1716092057318518957) about EIP-1559: “.. if the world loves EIP 1559, then i am against the world ..” by Max Resnick. Opportunities and events 🏄‍♀️ ------------------------------ * EigenLayer Research [Fellowship](https://twitter.com/eigenlayer/status/1715111409275813895) (ERF). Readings and watchings 🎞 ------------------------- * A lightspeed podcast [episode](https://twitter.com/0xMert_/status/1716826521229553932) with Jon Charbonneau: SOL vs ETH endgame. * A [zeroknowledge.fm](http://zeroknowledge.fm) [episode](https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm/status/1714967583223370102): Return to MPC with Nigel Smart. * The Chopping Block [episode](https://twitter.com/Unchained_pod/status/1715738830081245646): A Rough Week 3 for SBF, DCG Troubles, Fees at Uniswap. * The Techno-Optimist [Manifesto](https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/) by Marc Andreessen. * An [article](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081478/manuel-blum-theoretical-computer-science-turing-award-academic-advisor/) “How does a legendary PhD advisor consistently produce extraordinary scholars?” by Sheon Han. Puzzles 🧩 ---------- * bankisan is [wondering](https://x.com/0xbankisan/status/1709951682300285189?s=20): Is there any way to do a gas efficient ECADD on the secp256k1 curve using Solidity? Fun of the week 🍩 ------------------ [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/54484c41b397986e7c250dac679b7dce1d126012ccc3f8069f8fb4dabbd8b3c6.jpg)](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot) [barnabe.eth](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot) [@barnabemonnot](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot) [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot/status/1710049464440823969) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f9cc3d71e83c9a9f8e7caeee3cf049893bf43724888253903b1b56d3d23ef01c.jpg) [![Like Icon](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/heart.png) 11](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot/status/1710049464440823969)[ 4:48 PM • Oct 5, 2023 ](https://twitter.com/barnabemonnot/status/1710049464440823969) [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1b8d7e66147bdc15b956aab22351374f8aef4f6d2652d30a07d65b79493ec271.jpg)](https://twitter.com/portport255) [porter | ZKsync ∎](https://twitter.com/portport255) [@portport255](https://twitter.com/portport255) [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/portport255/status/1716241866247856464) In 1995, the largest cryptography class only had 86 students. The field has come a long way! ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/efc7397406c0c77846df73441aaac3a8b7a43b0b3e5e53d901aee6b6d006230d.png) [![Like Icon](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/heart.png) 33](https://twitter.com/portport255/status/1716241866247856464)[ 6:55 PM • Oct 22, 2023 ](https://twitter.com/portport255/status/1716241866247856464) Thank you for reading the 15th edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster. 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