Proof of Track 2023-12-23

Dec 24, 2023

The State of zkEVMs: End of 2023

The ultimate guide to every major zkEVM project's progress in 2023, comparing Polygon zkEVM, Scroll, Taiko, Immutable zkEVM, Linea, zkSync and StarkNet.

Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning for Blockchains

A general intro to zkML by Giza CEO.

is GKR really faster for grand product?

I don't have a perfect sense what this is, but you can read the thread if you know.

FHE posts by PSE

Zero to Start: Applied Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).

🔍 ⛓️ Ethereum & Blockchains

A brief history of crypto

Polynya's personal perspective of the various eras in crypto.

Harmony Infinite Minting Bug

The story behind and how they averted a disaster.

🔍 🧱 Layer2 & Modular

zksync's Boojum upgrade

It's said to be "one of the most game changing updates to an Eth rollup EVER." It makes zkSync super cheap with calldata compression.

The first L2 to migrate to Celestia modular DA

L2beat's elaboration on the Manta Pacific. See also comparison of Optimism and Manta L1 calldata. Also an analysis on how secure is the construction of not using Celestia blobstream.

"AnyTrust is not basically the security of a sidechain and you know that"

It doesn't have "basically" the security of a sidechain, it has the security of a sidechain.

Celestia explained from an Ethereum alignment perspective in 6 steps

Step by step explanation of Celestia's narrative.

Exit Window instead of Upgradeability of Layer2

TL/DR - If an upgrade has 10 day delay but your forced transaction has 15 day delay you will not be able to exit from a Rollup when malicious upgrade is pushed and your withdrawal transaction is censored (forcing you to use L1 forced tx mechanism). Examples: dYdX 9 days upgrade delay but 14 days of withdrawal max censor....

🔍 🏦 DeFi & AMM & TradeFi

Auctions: context types of auctions what is an auction from the Auction Theory Perspective and from the Mechanism Design Perspective and EIP-1559 as a specific example

Explore auctions in general and their application and significance in blockchain in particular.

By volume the Uniswap Protocol is the largest DEX.

Autstin debunked the myth that Uniswap is not a DEX. 1: 1inch is not dex but aggregator (see also, aggregator is just a dex with no liquidity but really good protocol owned atomic arb bots); 2: The Uniswap interface is just small part of the protocol..