Proof of Track 2023-09-24
🔍 ZK
Zama's fhEVM whitepaper and alpha source code
Unlocking a new era of end-to-end encrypted blockchain with Zama's FHE tech.
Hal Finney unearths a 25-year-old talk on zero-knowledge crypto
What a legend. Full talk here.
An Opinionated Overview of ZK Tooling and Proof Systems Right Now
Proofofemail's author's breakdown of the different popular zk proving stacks, and why they chose the ones they did. Commentable version.
Current State of Verifying P256 Curve
The existing P256 verifiers across various networks and potential improvements. Very sweet.
private_ft
Private voting for your Friend.Tech key holders.
🔍 Ethereum
the rarest vanity address of all time
Bro got a 14 leading zero address. Also we are waiting for a 15.
Analyzing Ethereum with Cryo
Download some Ethereum data, and analyze it with polars.
🔍 Layer2
A "friendly fork" between Uniswap DAO and Zero Protocol on Polygon zkEVM
Actually the concept of friendly fork is pretty cool, check out some info in Zero's proposal.
How companies that raised millions are so down bad that they try to make a travesty of research to embed themselves into the OP ecosystem
Norswap's opinion on the fact that every big project is trying to apply their own solution to OP and bigger ecosystems.. This hurts smaller teams becuase it's more about PR...
POKT Network – Rolling into the Modular Future of the Protocol (a technical deep dive)
They are using Rollkit and Celestia to build decentralized RPC.
Extending the Ethereum-equivalence definition
Ethereum-equivalence: 1. EVM-equivalence; 2. Ethereum-equivalent (architecture); 3. Permissionless & Decentralized (based rollup); 4. Philosophically-aligned with Ethereum.
Bro. Solana's native Turbine has more DA than all other DAs combined!
Literally every time someone says nice thing about Solana (most of them may be wrong), researchers will give you counter examples and tell you why it's wrong. Good to learn all these. See also: Bro. That’s not what DA is! and make an ETH L2 that uses solana for DA.
barknet
A sovereign rollup based on Bitcoin DA and Mardara (a StarkNet sequencer).
the list of companies leveraging Polygon's rollup stack
Also Astar Network.
🔍 DeFi
Introducing Memswap
A new protocol for swapping tokens and buying NFTs using decentralized market orders.
Introducing Uni-LBP
A capital-efficient Uniswap v4 liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP) hooks contract. Also I recommend you to check hooks ecosystem at awesome-uniswap-hooks by my favorite researcher msfew.
The balancer frontend is under an attack
Probably because ".fi domain implies Finnish govt got social engineered". Also brief review of friendtech's security model (basically better UX (mostly on frontend), means more attack surface)...
Uniswap v4 testnets for Hackers at ETHGlobal
Sepolia, OP Stack (Conduit), Scroll, and Local with template.
is there a simple way to find out all the ticks on a uniswap v3 pair?
oku.trade; amms-rs; uniswapv3-squid.
Discussion on A Very Cool Price Oracle
My discussion with my friend on UTXOracle.py.
🔍 Web
THE IDEAL VIEWPORT DOESN’T EXIST
"We gathered over 120,000 datapoints with over 2,300 unique viewport sizes." Very scary.
the complexity of building a new web browser from scratch
TLDR: don't even try.
🔍 Others
A brief introduction to Neoclassical Architecture
True Neoclassical Architecture directly imitated the temples actually built by the Greeks and the Romans.
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