HackMD
7-13 August 2023
As I mentioned in my week 3 update, there has been a significant change in the direction I am taking in my research. I have teamed up with Nilu, Rachit, Ella, and we will be doing a comprehenseive research on zk-rollups around the topics of sequencer and prover decentralization, rollup economics and value flow between L1 and L2, and optimal sequencer/prover reward structures, along with simulations for more insights.
Working as a team will allow us to emprace a much larger scope and prepare a more in-depth research.
This is super interesting and I am very glad about the new direction. The zk rabbithole has been capturing me for quite a while, and it will be great opportunity to learn more and get involved in actual research.
The project proposal can be found here.
In order to dive deeper into this topic, this week I have studied several articles and research docs:
General:
- An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
- The Complete Guide to Rollups
- Understanding rollup economics from first principles
- A normie's guide to rollups
- The economics of rollup fees
- Decentralizing zk-Rollups by Scroll founder
On sequencers:
- https://ethresear.ch/t/decentralized-l2-sequencing-w-native-ibc-interoperability/14944
- https://prestwich.substack.com/p/the-definitive-guide-to-sequencing
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/request-for-proposals-decentralized-sequencer-selection/350
- https://twitter.com/benafisch/status/1636794650324537345?lang=en
- https://hackmd.io/@ttsao/SysLp4sOh#/
- https://hackmd.io/@EspressoSystems/SharedSequencing
- https://hackmd.io/@EspressoSystems/EspressoSequencer
- https://blockworks.co/news/shared-sequencers-decentralization
On provers:
- https://ethresear.ch/t/zkps-two-step-submission-algorithm-an-implementation-of-decentralized-provers/15504
- https://figmentcapital.medium.com/decentralized-proving-proof-markets-and-zk-infrastructure-f4cce2c58596
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/proposal-sequencer-selection-b52-pbs-with-a-federated-prover-network/351
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/whisk-y-should-we-use-whisk-for-sequencer-selection/365
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/proposal-sequencer-selection-cookie-jar/448
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/proposal-sequencer-selection-irish-coffee/483
- https://discourse.aztec.network/t/ideas-on-a-proving-network/724
PBS-day: Modular summit - afternoon talks related to rollups
Zk-rollup research:
I have started a deep analysis of two zk-rollups, Scroll and Taiko, and will continue with that next week. I have also reached out to the project teams for more information.
