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Validity rollup research library

This research library contains resources I will be using to inform a report on validity rollups that I am producing as part of the Human Rights Foundation’s ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. Pull requests adding related and useful resources are appreciated!

Other research libraries

Zero knowledge, from proofs to rollups

Scaling the Ethereum network

Docs

2013-08-19: Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness

2014-09-17: Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top

2018-08-15: Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts

2018-09-22: On-chain scaling to potentially ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation

2018-10-03: Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps

2019-01-03: Introducing Matter Testnet (Proposal: Multi-operator model)

2019-01-23: Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs

2019-04-03: SoK: Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols

2019-06-15: Minimal Viable Merged Consensus

2019-07-10: Trustless Two-Way Bridges With Side Chains By Halting

2019-08-28: Ethereum Smart Contracts in L2: Optimistic Rollup

2019-11-04: Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup: Deep Dive

2019-11-06: The “Why”s of Optimistic Rollup

2019-12-05: Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs Strike Back

2019-12-11: Commentary on Greg Maxwell’s analysis of zkSync

2020-01-23: Fighting censorship attacks on smart contracts

2020-02-05: Zendoo: a zk-SNARK Verifiable Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Enabling Decoupled and Decentralized Sidechains

2020-06-11: CoinPool, exploring generic payment pools for Fun and Privacy

2020-07-17: Rollups improve scalability vs Rollups increase throughput

2020-10-03: SNARKs and the future of blockchains

2020-10-08: The Optimistic Rollup Dilemma

2020-12-23: Avail: The Data Availability Blockchain

2022-01-13: RSK scalability

2022-01-22: A Token Model for Layer-2 Block Production

2022-02-16: Pay Attention To Celestia

2022-02-21: CoinPool: efficient off-chain payment pools for Bitcoin

2022-03-01: Introducing AnyTrust Chains: Cheaper, Faster L2 Chains with Minimal Trust Assumptions

2022-03-24: Bitcoin zk-rollups

Interviews

2020-11-04: The Blockchain Debate Podcast

2020-10-14: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem

2021-04-23: Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup Debate: Optimism, Starkware, Arbitrum and zkSync

Presentations

2013-05-19: Computational Integrity – applications to Bitcoin

2017-09-19: The Data Availability Problem

2019-03-15: Scalable blockchains as data layers

2019-06-24: ZK Rollup – Ethereum Scalability with ZKPs

2021-10-20: Rollups and Data Availability – Building a Modular Blockchain Stack

Misc

Cross-rollup zk-transfers

Fuel security analysis