Week 6 Update

During week 6, Norbert and I prepared a comparison table for zk-rollups. While we plan to add more rollups to this table, our preliminary analysis points to a worrying trend: most zk-rollups lack decentralized seqeuencers or provers. This centralized tendency in the system significantly increases risks and vulnerabilities that are counterintuitive to the core philosophy of Ethereum.

Consequently, we turned our attention to the resources of the rollup research community to create a comprehensive list of prover selection methods and related incentives. This part of research is a bit like a journey of discovery into new territories. The prospect of discovering valuable insights is really exciting! 🗺️⛵🦜💎

Additionally, based on the information from these research portals, we formulated a set of criteria and questions to critically evaluate various prover mechanisms.

Furthermore, edited the project proposal to include the prover selection method besides incentives and to cover the prover mechanism in general.