Proof of Track 2023-07-07

Jul 08, 2023

ZK-Snarks Trilogy

Summary of key points of a comprehensive discussion on the history of SNARKs.

eth-proof

Prove historical Ethereum L1 blocks using the plonky2 zkEVM.

How Nova got broken

The zero-knowledge attack of the year might just have happened, or how Nova got broken. And the author of Nova is responding.

A Soft Introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Intro to TEE, its usages, and its scenery.

Private market

Leveraging zk for trustlessly selling private keys, signatures and groth16 proofs.

An elegant mental model of ZK-VM vs ZK-EVM

"ZK-VM is prover-centric while ZK-EVM is Ethereum-centric."

🔍 Ethereum

Ethereum JSON-RPC

An interactive reference of the Ethereum node API.

HE STOLE $200 MILLION. HE GAVE IT BACK. NOW HE’S READY TO EXPLAIN WHY

In a Coinage exclusive, the hacker behind 2023's biggest crypto heist explains himself. It's an entertaining read, not factual I think.

You're writing require statements wrong

Find simplicity in the core invariant of your protocol. And work like hell to ensure it never breaks (or catch it before it does).

CircuitBreaker gas spike

A gas analysis on the ERC 7265: Circuit Breaker.

lower bound for baseFeePerGas on Ethereum is 7 wei

The reason basefee = 0 doesn't work any more is that 1559 forced an implicit lower-bound of gasprice, it can never go below 7 wei.

reth-indexer

Reads directly from the reth db and indexes the data into a postgres database, 60x faster than The Graph Substream.

cryo

The easiest way to extract blockchain data to parquet, csv, or json.

Proof of work emerges as a solution in blockchains

Vanity addresses, uni v4 hooks, arbitrum sequencer nonce mining, gas efficient function selectors...

ERC-7281 (aka xERC20)

An open standard to fix token sovereignty.

seaport-gossip

A peer-to-peer network for sharing Seaport orders.

🔍 Layer2

op-up

A hive tool for testing OP-Stack-compatible software modules.

basically what's going to happen is

L2s, L3s, Optimistic Rollups, App-chain Rollups, and ZK Rollups are going to start fighting amongst themselves for marketshare and everyone is going to be super confused and get hungry and pick the chain named Solami.

🔍 DeFi

trading-days

A Uniswap v4 hook that reverts when markets are closed in New York. Bringing tradfi innovation to AMMs lol.

Please stop making vAMM perps

Dan Robinson points out the problems of vAMM perps, and 0xfoobar's thought.

🔍 MEV

Arbitrage loss and how to fix it

Asymmetric fees could be a simple and effective way to turn most of these gains into fees, and drastically increase LP revenue. With a reliable oracle, you could even capture LVR with asymmetric fees – and solve most of the arbitrage loss of AMMs.

🔍 Web

Computerraria

A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria.

🔍 Others

A Brief History of Tennis

From Medieval monks and Henry VIII to the French Revolution and Wimbledon.

A heraldic map of Europe

A HERALDIC map.

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