Taiko Labs

Paragraph

Paragraph

Taiko Labs

Previous
1
13
14
15
Next

Popular posts New posts Trending publications

©️ 2025 Paragraph Technologies Inc

Privacy policy Terms of use Discover great writing

Taiko Labs

Written by

An Ethereum Based Rollup.

Subscribe to Taiko Labs

Join >54k subscribers and stay updated by getting the latest posts delivered directly to your inbox.

Cover image

Taiko Stack Selected by ENS for Namechain Based Rollup

ENS, Ethereum's most widely used naming protocol, has chosen the Taiko stack as the foundation for Namechain, its dedicated ZK rollup for decentralized naming services. Namechain will deploy as a based rollup using Surge, Nethermind's framework built on Taiko's technology. One of Ethereum's most critical infrastructure protocols is launching with the architecture Taiko pioneered and brought to production.Why This MattersWhen ENS (responsible for human-readable addresses ac...

Most popular by Taiko Labs

L2 MEV wat

Taiko Stack Selected by ENS for Namechain Based Rollup

Cover image

Eldfell L3 (alpha-4) is live!

The Updated Taiko Alethia Whitepaper Is Here

Cover image

Trailblazers Season 5 Rewards are Here!

Cover image

Taikolights: Q3 2025 Community Update

Discover card cover image

What are ZK-SNARKs and how they work

Special thanks to Ben Wan, Matthew Finestone, and Brecht Devos for feedback and review.Table of contentsIntroductionZK-SNARK DefinitionThe Properties of ZK-SNARKsThe PLONKish ZK-SNARK Proof Systems 3.1 The PLONKish ZK-SNARKs in a Nutshell and Their Role 3.2 Commitment Schemes 3.3 Interactive Oracle Proof 3.4 Fiat-Shamir Heuristic 3.5. How the PLONKish ZK-SNARK Proof Systems Work 3.6 A Bit About Advanced PLONKish ZK-SNARK AspectsReferencesIntroductionA ZK-SNARK is a cryptographic proving syste...

Discover card cover image

What are ZK-SNARKs and how they work

Special thanks to Ben Wan, Matthew Finestone, and Brecht Devos for feedback and review.Table of contentsIntroductionZK-SNARK DefinitionThe Properties of ZK-SNARKsThe PLONKish ZK-SNARK Proof Systems 3.1 The PLONKish ZK-SNARKs in a Nutshell and Their Role 3.2 Commitment Schemes 3.3 Interactive Oracle Proof 3.4 Fiat-Shamir Heuristic 3.5. How the PLONKish ZK-SNARK Proof Systems Work 3.6 A Bit About Advanced PLONKish ZK-SNARK AspectsReferencesIntroductionA ZK-SNARK is a cryptographic proving syste...

Discover card cover image

Ethereum’s commitment to rollups is strong and credible; rollups’ commitment to Ethereum ought to be the same.Taiko is a fully decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup (Type 1 ZK-EVM). Our goal is to scale Ethereum while upholding the root principles of security, permissionlessness, and decentralization. We started building Taiko in Q1 2022 and are currently working on the ZK-EVM circuits, the L2 rollup node, and the protocol smart contracts on L1. In this article we would like to share t...

Discover card cover image

Ethereum’s commitment to rollups is strong and credible; rollups’ commitment to Ethereum ought to be the same.Taiko is a fully decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup (Type 1 ZK-EVM). Our goal is to scale Ethereum while upholding the root principles of security, permissionlessness, and decentralization. We started building Taiko in Q1 2022 and are currently working on the ZK-EVM circuits, the L2 rollup node, and the protocol smart contracts on L1. In this article we would like to share t...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Community Update #3

Taiko Community Update #3 has arrived 🥁 We do these to provide transparency into the progress we’ve made since our last community update. These updates represent our most recent two-week work iteration.Team wide ✨Added the MIT License to taiko-mono.Posted a blog entry: Taiko is fully open source.Updated the Taiko website at taiko.xyz.Added protocol contract documentation to the website.Added language channels to the Discord. Join us!Minted 2022 Taiko Contributor (Founding Year) GitPOAPs.ZK-E...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Community Update #3

Taiko Community Update #3 has arrived 🥁 We do these to provide transparency into the progress we’ve made since our last community update. These updates represent our most recent two-week work iteration.Team wide ✨Added the MIT License to taiko-mono.Posted a blog entry: Taiko is fully open source.Updated the Taiko website at taiko.xyz.Added protocol contract documentation to the website.Added language channels to the Discord. Join us!Minted 2022 Taiko Contributor (Founding Year) GitPOAPs.ZK-E...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #3

This is the 3rd edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 🌶️Apr 6: “a project on zkSync raised 921 ETH ($1.7M) in a token sale, but funds are stuck forever in the smart cont...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #3

This is the 3rd edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 🌶️Apr 6: “a project on zkSync raised 921 ETH ($1.7M) in a token sale, but funds are stuck forever in the smart cont...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Alpha-2 Testnet is Live

Taiko alpha-2 testnet (a2) is live! Following our first testnet (a1), Snæfellsjökull, a2 continues the trend of Icelandic volcanos and is called Askja. Let’s scale this mountain on our road to scaling Ethereum securely. Relative to alpha-1, the most prominent changes are:ZKPs (validity proofs) are partially integratedProvers are in and are permissionless; proposers are permissioned (just us)—opposite of alpha-1Protocol economics are enabledReal rewards for provers to compensate their resource...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Alpha-2 Testnet is Live

Taiko alpha-2 testnet (a2) is live! Following our first testnet (a1), Snæfellsjökull, a2 continues the trend of Icelandic volcanos and is called Askja. Let’s scale this mountain on our road to scaling Ethereum securely. Relative to alpha-1, the most prominent changes are:ZKPs (validity proofs) are partially integratedProvers are in and are permissionless; proposers are permissioned (just us)—opposite of alpha-1Protocol economics are enabledReal rewards for provers to compensate their resource...

Discover card cover image

Alpha-2 Testnet Update

We launched our alpha-2 testnet a bit over two weeks ago, and it has been a very useful one in terms of testing, finding issues, and other takeaways. We, and you, have utilized this testnet to primarily test decentralized proving and protocol economics. We want to say thank you to all who have helped test—transacting, deploying, node running and proving—and also want to express our apologies for any sub-optimal experience (transaction delays) you may have encountered in helping surface some o...

Discover card cover image

Alpha-2 Testnet Update

We launched our alpha-2 testnet a bit over two weeks ago, and it has been a very useful one in terms of testing, finding issues, and other takeaways. We, and you, have utilized this testnet to primarily test decentralized proving and protocol economics. We want to say thank you to all who have helped test—transacting, deploying, node running and proving—and also want to express our apologies for any sub-optimal experience (transaction delays) you may have encountered in helping surface some o...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Ambassador Program

Ethereum has come a long way in its seven-year life — changing the world, in our opinion — but it is only just getting started. Scaling Ethereum at a technical level, as ZK-EVMs aim to do, is just one (huge) part of the equation in bringing it to the world - there is also the need to… actually bring it to the world! That’s why we are initiating the Taiko Ambassador Program. We need help in spreading the word that Ethereum scales securely and that you can use your existing solidity code, dapp,...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Ambassador Program

Ethereum has come a long way in its seven-year life — changing the world, in our opinion — but it is only just getting started. Scaling Ethereum at a technical level, as ZK-EVMs aim to do, is just one (huge) part of the equation in bringing it to the world - there is also the need to… actually bring it to the world! That’s why we are initiating the Taiko Ambassador Program. We need help in spreading the word that Ethereum scales securely and that you can use your existing solidity code, dapp,...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #1

This is the first edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. What to expect? New and ongoing ZK research discussions and proposals, new projects, updates from the already existing and beloved projects, ZK-drama, some educational watchings and writings, opportunities for builders, and puzzles for the curious. Not all of these every time but all of these from time to time. Let’s start with the first editi...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Alpha-1 Testnet is Live

Today, the Taiko Alpha-1 testnet (a1) is live - our first public testnet! We’ve codenamed this testnet, Snæfellsjökull. Be on the lookout for other Icelandic volcano releases as we approach mainnet over 2023! 🌋 We’re thrilled to reach this milestone towards our Type-1 ZK-EVM, with the ultimate goal of scaling Ethereum in a manner that is as secure and seamless for developers and users as possible. We still have a long way to go, but we hope you will join us in using and testing our first pub...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #1

This is the first edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. What to expect? New and ongoing ZK research discussions and proposals, new projects, updates from the already existing and beloved projects, ZK-drama, some educational watchings and writings, opportunities for builders, and puzzles for the curious. Not all of these every time but all of these from time to time. Let’s start with the first editi...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Alpha-1 Testnet is Live

Today, the Taiko Alpha-1 testnet (a1) is live - our first public testnet! We’ve codenamed this testnet, Snæfellsjökull. Be on the lookout for other Icelandic volcano releases as we approach mainnet over 2023! 🌋 We’re thrilled to reach this milestone towards our Type-1 ZK-EVM, with the ultimate goal of scaling Ethereum in a manner that is as secure and seamless for developers and users as possible. We still have a long way to go, but we hope you will join us in using and testing our first pub...

Discover card cover image

Rollup Decentralization

This post explores definitions and high-level ideas of rollup decentralization. It does not cover deep technical detail about decentralizing rollup implementations. We identify Taiko as a decentralized Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup. Ethereum-equivalent - the moniker of a type-1 ZK-EVM - is a technical design decision that we describe here. In this post, we’d like to talk about the other descriptor in that statement: decentralized. We will explore:What is the definition of a decentralized roll...

Discover card cover image

Rollup Decentralization

This post explores definitions and high-level ideas of rollup decentralization. It does not cover deep technical detail about decentralizing rollup implementations. We identify Taiko as a decentralized Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup. Ethereum-equivalent - the moniker of a type-1 ZK-EVM - is a technical design decision that we describe here. In this post, we’d like to talk about the other descriptor in that statement: decentralized. We will explore:What is the definition of a decentralized roll...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Community Update — Q4/2022

Below is our brief summary of what happened in the fourth quarter of 2022. It was a super busy one to close out the year, and now we are excited to be writing from 2023 - the year where ZK-EVMs are sure to leave an indelible mark on Ethereum and the world. Let’s jump right in.Research & DevelopmentZK-EVMImplemented RETURNDATASIZE/RETURNDATACOPY.Added circuit benchmarks.Added unit tests for math gadgets/super circuit.Added support for invalid transactions.Refactored math gadgets.Made improveme...

Discover card cover image

Taiko Community Update — Q4/2022

Below is our brief summary of what happened in the fourth quarter of 2022. It was a super busy one to close out the year, and now we are excited to be writing from 2023 - the year where ZK-EVMs are sure to leave an indelible mark on Ethereum and the world. Let’s jump right in.Research & DevelopmentZK-EVMImplemented RETURNDATASIZE/RETURNDATACOPY.Added circuit benchmarks.Added unit tests for math gadgets/super circuit.Added support for invalid transactions.Refactored math gadgets.Made improveme...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #2

This is the 2nd edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 week 🌶️**Debate over worldcoin's biometry use and concerns about negative consequences. **After GPT4 release and Sam...

Discover card cover image

ZK-Roller-Coaster #2

This is the 2nd edition of ZK-Roller-Coaster where we track and investigate the most exciting, meaningful, and crazy ZK-stuff of the prior two weeks. 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 week 🌶️**Debate over worldcoin's biometry use and concerns about negative consequences. **After GPT4 release and Sam...