Taiko’s Rollup Coaster #28 Explores Latest Ethereum Innovations

Taiko’s
bi-weekly
newsletter,

The
Rollup
Coaster,
continues
to
provide
in-depth
insights
into
the
evolving
landscape
of
Ethereum.
The
latest
edition,
authored
by
Taiko’s
researcher
Jünger,
covers
a
range
of
topics,
including
rollups,
zero-knowledge
proofs
(ZKPs),
based
sequencing/preconfirmations,
Trusted
Execution
Environments
(TEEs),
and
Miner
Extractable
Value
(MEV)/Proposer-Builder
Separation
(PBS).

Highlights

The
newsletter
highlights
the
completion
of
the
preconfirmation
demo
day,
showcasing
Layer
2
(L2)
preconfirmers
that
can
provide
preconfirmation
to
rollup
users
at
an
impressive
speed
of
20ms,
outpacing
centralized
sequencers.

ZK
and
Rollup
Research

• Ingonyama
  and
  Starknet
  announced
  a
  strategic
  partnership
  aimed
  at
  accelerating
  the
  Stwo
  prover
  utilizing
  Ingonyama’s
  GPU-accelerator
  library
  ICICLE.
• Aztec
  unveiled
  Provernet,
  inviting
  ZK
  providers
  to
  join
  a
  permissioned
  testnet
  for
  proof
  generation.
• Alberto
  from
  Anoma
  shared
  two
  articles:
  
  SuperSPARTAN
  by
  Hand
  and
  
  HyperNova
  by
  Hand,
  delving
  into
  advanced
  ZK
  protocols.
• Paul
  Gafni
  published
  the
  first
  in
  a
  series
  of
  blog
  posts
  on
  verifiable
  computation,
  explaining
  its
  basics
  and
  importance.
• Lita
  released
  a
  video
  outlining
  the
  architectural
  details
  of
  the
  Valida
  zkVM.
• LambdaClass
  shared
  a
  blog
  post
  on
  Circle
  STARKs.
• Starknet
  Exploration
  Team
  announced
  zkRamp,
  a
  P2P
  on/off-ramp
  protocol.
• Mo
  from
  Brevis
  compared
  generalized
  and
  specialized
  ZK.
• Starkware
  released
  their
  first
  Bitcoin
  research
  post,
  discussing
  the
  path
  to
  general
  computation
  on
  Bitcoin.
• Four
  Pillar
  Research
  published
  “zkRollup
  Landscape
  –
  It’s
  Supply
  Chain
  and
  Future.”
• Kroma
  integrated
  Ingonyama’s
  ICICLE
  for
  accelerated
  proof
  generation.

Based
Sequencing
and
Preconfirmations

• Taiko
  published
  a
  detailed
  blog
  post
  on
  the
  necessity
  of
  preconfirmations
  for
  based
  rollups.
• Primev
  shared
  testnet
  results
  of
  mev-commit,
  implementing
  preconfirmations.
• Mempirate
  from
  Chainbound
  published
  a
  blog
  post
  on
  the
  interaction
  of
  MCP
  with
  FOCIL
  and
  preconfirmations.

TEE
(Trusted
Execution
Environments)

Though
not
detailed
in
this
edition,
TEEs
remain
a
critical
area
of
interest
for
secure,
confidential
computation
within
the
blockchain
ecosystem.

MEV/PBS

• Max
  Resnick
  proposed
  Braid,
  an
  implementation
  of
  multiple
  concurrent
  block
  proposers,
  running
  many
  instances
  of
  Ethereum
  consensus
  in
  parallel.
• The
  Robust
  Incentive
  Group
  from
  the
  Ethereum
  Foundation
  published
  block
  construction
  session
  notes,
  discussing
  current
  block
  building
  methods
  and
  future
  roadmaps.
• Terence
  from
  Offchain
  Labs
  shared
  research
  on
  Inclusion
  List
  Timing
  Constraints
  and
  ePBS
  Breakout
  #5
  notes.

According
to

taiko.mirror.xyz,
the
newsletter
is
a
valuable
resource
for
those
interested
in
the
technical
and
strategic
developments
within
the
Ethereum
ecosystem.

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