Nuffle: Ethereum's Finality-As-A-Service Layer
The article explores NFFL, a fast cross-rollup state verification protocol using EigenLayer’s restaked ETH and NEAR DA, enabling secure, efficient, and scalable cross-chain applications with fast finality.
By Alex Hook
How To Make Cross-Chain Tokens Fungible Again: Part I
This two-part report explores ERC-7281: a new proposal to make cross-chain tokens fungible. Part 1 introduces the problem (non-fungibility of bridged tokens) and analyzes current solutions.
By Emmanuel Awosika., Alex Hook
Chain Abstraction: Orchestrating Towards the New Internet's Composability
The article explores blockchain fragmentation issues and introduces chain abstraction as a solution to unify state, liquidity, and assets across multiple chains. It highlights Socket protocol's role in enabling seamless user experiences and multichain composability for dApps and developers.
By Zhev
The Verge: Making Ethereum Verifiable And Sustainable
This article explores "The Verge," focused on enhancing Ethereum's verifiability, scalability, and sustainability through Verkle Trees, STARK proofs, zk-friendly consensus, the Beam Chain, and more
By Koray Akpinarr
ERC-7683: Unifying Ethereum With Cross-Chain Intents
This article explores ERC-7683, a standard for crosschain intents that enables seamless multichain transactions, improves liquidity flow, and fosters interoperability through shared infrastructure and industry collaboration.
By Arbnom
DePIN On Ethereum: Redefining Coordination Systems
DePIN brings Ethereum's global coordination to the physical world. Learn how Ethereum DePIN networks solve problems across energy, telecom, compute, and more.
By 0xyanshu, Emmanuel Awosika.
Exploring Crypto Data III: Data Stacks
The final part of the Crypto Data series explores three key approaches to handling blockchain data: Lean Stacks for efficient, goal-specific pipelines, Indexing Engines for standardized and reusable queries, and Data Lakes for storing and analyzing extensive datasets.
By Yulesa
EIP-7762 & EIP-7691 : Making Ethereum Blobs Great Again
The article explores EIP-7762 and EIP-7691, focusing on optimizing blob pricing and increasing blob throughput to enhance Ethereum's data availability layer, while balancing scalability, consensus security, and rollup efficiency.
By Seongwan Park
Bringing Permissionless Lending: Making Sense of Euler
Explore how Euler v2 revolutionizes DeFi lending with modular architecture, ERC-4626 vaults, and permissionless customization, enabling tailored lending markets, seamless interoperability, and efficient value capture for diverse assets and users.
By Panatagama
Exploring Crypto Data II: Outsourced Data Types
Part 2 of the Crypto Data series focuses on data service providers. Nodes, RPCs and Indexers can provide reliable data streams to developers and blockchain users. However, outsourcing data to a provider comes with tradeoffs. Explore the data service layer for crypto
Exploring Crypto Data I: Data Flow Architectures
A three-part exploration of crypto data workflows—from initial data requests to final transformation of data into useful metrics. Part 1 discusses retrieval, decoding, and transformation, and utilization of raw on-chain data to build blockchain applications.
The Practical Guide to Ethereum Rollups
An extensive exploration of Ethereum rollups, how they work, and how we can enhance their security properties
By Mark Odayan
Charting Ethereum's Account Abstraction Roadmap I: EIP-3074, EIP-5806 & EIP-7702
An overview of Ethereum accounts and transaction validity, and the push for account abstraction via EOA programmability
UniFi: Rethinking the Ethereum Approach to Rollups
A new based restaking rollup design that enhances economic security and efficiency for rollups, addressing key challenges like transaction revenue loss and providing credible commitments for transaction outcomes.
Wildcat: Undercollateralized Credit Expansion for Fun and Profit 2.0
Exploring the Wildcat approach to bringing undercollateralized loans onchain and making DeFi accessible
By Zhev, Emmanuel Awosika.
The State Of Fraud Proofs In Ethereum L2s
A comprehensive analysis of fraud proof systems in Ethereum rollups. Featuring Arbitrum, Optimism, Cartesi, & Kroma
By sm-stack, BTC Penguin
Unpacking The Starknet Bolt Upgrade
A comprehensive overview of Starknet's latest upgrade (v0.13.2)
By Fikunmi, Emmanuel Awosika.
EIP-1559: Separating Mechanisms From Memes
A deep dive into Ethereum's EIP-1559 transaction fee mechanism design and its misunderstood value and potential
Block-STM vs. Sealevel: A Comparison of Parallel Execution Engines
Analysis of functional parallelization in blockchain execution.
By Fikunmi
EIP-7685: General Purpose Execution Requests
EIP-7685 proposes a general purpose execution requests framework
EIP-7623: Repricing Ethereum Calldata
Learn EIP-7623, a proposal aiming to increase calldata costs in Ethereum transactions.
The State Of Rollup Interoperability Solutions in 2024
How can we fix L2 fragmentation and save Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap?
Harnessing Shared Security For Secure Cross-Chain Interoperability: Lagrange State Committees And Beyond
A deep dive on shared security and the role of shared security infrastructure in building robust and secure cross-chain interoperability solutions.
By Emmanuel Awosika.
EIP-7657: Securing Ethereum's Sync Committee
EIP-7657 introduces a slashing condition for malicious sync committee messages to improve the security and reliability of light clients on the Ethereum network.
Understanding Blockchain Governance
Governance in the blockchain
ERC-5564 & ERC-6358: Unlocking Privacy on Ethereum with Stealth Addresses
Introducing stealth addresses to enhance user privacy
EIP-7503: Zero-knowledge Wormholes for Private Ethereum Transactions
Making privacy-preserving transfers on Ethereum
EIP-6110: Fixing Beacon Chain Tech Debt
EIP-6110 deprecates the Eth1-Eth2 bridge and reforms the Beacon Chain's validator deposit processing mechanism for better staking UX and improved network security.
EIP-7251: Implications of Increasing MaxEB for Validators
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
EIP-7002: Unpacking Improvements to Staking UX Post-Merge
EIP-7002 brings Ethereum closer to the goal of simple, secure, and trustless staking.
Data Availability Or: How Rollups Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Ethereum
To be (fully) secured by Ethereum or not, that is the question.
Verkle Trees For The Rest Of Us: Part 1
An ELI5-style article series on Ethereum’s next major upgrade: The Verge
ERC-7512: Bolstering Smart Contract Security With Onchain Audits
"Decentralize X and put it on the blockchain" has never sounded so good.
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