Proof of Track 2023-08-24
🔍 ZK
what is that program that is being verified?
Take Worldcoin's onchain zk verifier as an example.
Which projects are using arkworks in production?
Penumbrazone, Worldcoin, Mina Kimchi.
Some rough impressions of Worldcoin
Matthew Green's review on Worldcoin.
Thread on Plonk
- What is Goblin Plonk? - Why is it called Goblin Plonk? - Do you have to make goblin noises when using it?
Accelerating Client-Side ZK with WebGPU
Good to see WebGPU is getting more attention in ZK.
🔍 Ethereum
Thoughts on Paradigm's Open Problems of Onchain Games
Ryan's thoughts on Paradigm's latest blog about onchain games.
Holesky public testnet genesis file has been generated
Chain ID-17000, the new testnet.
Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations
Thoughts from CT: He's right up there with Supreme Leader of Ayatollah Khamenei of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Devs arrested for writing code, Nothing new, just more pioneers being demonized like we have seen throughout history, Vending machine owners have the ability to uninstall their machines, alpeh_v's doomer take, publication of software expressing political beliefs is an exercise of speech rights, full stop.
Good breakdown of the fundamental design differences between Layer Zero and CCIP
It is about flexibility vs. security guarantees.
People (understandably) are excited to compare tps of different chains
bartek asking about how to calculate tps for multi-call transactions.
🔍 Layer2
still friend.tech
Friendtech gave airdrop designers free proof of personhood/sybil resistance
Friend.tech’s 24-hour fees climb to $1.4 million, ranking third after Ethereum and Lido
Scraped data of 101,000 friend.tech users links their wallet addresses
Could Friend Tech shares be an alternative to student loans, and all their problems?
anish built http://friendmex.com but didn’t even sign up for friendtech
all it takes to fetch all the 1 million+ friend tech trades with ape
op-boot
op-boot = op-reth + op-node.
op-reth
OP fork of reth.
Has anyone figured out how do general messaging passing (not token transfers!) between optimistic rollups yet?
Read from L1 but with challenge period latency, or use shared sequencer (but requires using the same sequencer), or CCIP and LayerZero.
Why NOT to use your protocol’s native token as your rollup’s gas token…
No net new demand for token, bad for cross domain MEV and interoperability, and bad for UX; may be good if your token has net demand (stable coin), potential value accrual.
Decentralized Sequencers
A overview of decentralized sequencers by Pantera Capital.
Defining "Rollup"
Finally a definition of rollup that 1. I agree, and 2. is accurate and easy to understand, and 3. does not include bridge..
ZKP compiler for ZKP + FHE
How SNARKs fall short for FHE.
On the impossibility of stateless blockchains
Basically stateless blockchain is impossible.
🔍 DeFi
Liquidity Provider Strategies for Uniswap: Liquidity Rebalancing
Liquidity rebalancing and it’s effects on the principal capital.
🔍 MEV
Open sourcing an old uniswap v2 triangular arbitrage bot
reusable stuff: - a general framework for regular dex tri arb - uniswap v2 tax checker - that's it i think.
first.lol
CLAIM A BLOCK FIRST, SCORE A POINT. CLAIM THE MOST BLOCKS, WIN ETH.
🔍 Web
Announcing Python in Excel
Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.
what's stopping you from making your app look like this?
Skeuomorphism...
🔍 Others
Cypherpunk mafia
20 cryptography geniuses that helped secure the internet.
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