4-10 Sep 2023 This week I have continued to dive deep into existing architectures and prover models. * Our mentor, Barnabé (from RIG) replied to our email. We'll have a call with him on the coming Tuesday, 12 Sep 2023. * We had a team meeting with Nilu and Rachit, discussing how to prioritize next steps and prepare for our meeting with Barnabé. We are focusing on: * Studying cryptoeconomics and rollup economics. * As part of this, I have prepared detailed notes on: * [Rollups are Real — Rollup Economics 2.0](https://davidecrapis.notion.site/Rollups-are-Real-Rollup-Economics-2-0-2516079f62a745b598133a101ba5a3de) * [Zk-proof pricing – recording from zk-Summit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7UllXTcjm4) * Re-studying the [Rollup economics framework](https://efdn.notion.site/ROP-3-Rollup-economics-framework-561d6340ad174195a335af6cc4e66bb7?pvs=25) of the Robust Incentives Group - [Notes created by our team](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zf452AHhwD3n5_XCX4j6OOWEQR2B4CvO/edit) * Also reviewing existing research on prover models, * I have also finalized my research notes on Linea and published it here: * Linea: https://hackmd.io/@norbertvadas/B1gFYRNAn * Besides the above, and as our next milestone is approaching, we have also started shifting our focus to defining what makes an optimal prover selection model. Earlier we have created a comparison table including current zk-rollups, and now we have agreed on preparing a scoring table comparing prover selection approaches (such as proof racing, proof mining, stake-based, stake-based with reputation ratio, stake-based combined with reputation ratio and with prover bids, auctions for prover bids etc.) based on a set of key criteria for a healthy prover network (such as permissionlessness, decentralization, competition, liveness, eligibility for entry etc.) and visualizing it in a radar chart. This will help us in our path to draft and define how an optimal prover selection model would look like. * I am super-excited as we progress on our path going deeper and deeper into the amazing rabbithole of zk-provers. :)