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.