Open Research Series: Part IV

→ State of ZK Rollups ft. @donnoh_eth @cooper_kunz

Full breakdown. ⬇️

00:44 The different stages of rollups
04:34 What is proposer failure?
06:53 Key nuances
11:09 Current ZK rollups' defenses against proposer failure
12:58 What (really) happens when proposer failure occurs?
17:43 Incentives for decentralizing the proposer
21:08 The multiproof model
26:22 What is the optimal number of provers?
29:15 Sequencer failures
36:46 Challenges in building ZK rollups
38:58 The shared sequencing solution
41:39 Upgrade mechanism / exit windows
44:18 The Polygon zkVM example
48:01 (Not so rapid) Yes/No spicy questions