Ethereum

EF should have supported ZK startups with social capital but they never did

all the ZK startups are dying in real time

if Ethereum was as cypherpunk as it wants to be, these projects would not have been abandoned

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EF has a team called Privacy and Scaling Explorations and there’s tonnes of really good zk work being done there

the fact that we haven't heard of it shows that EF doesn't openly share its social capital with the teams

saying this as a zk startup founder literally witnessing this collapse from the inside as more and more teams disappear

if there is tonnes of work being done, there seem to be no visible results

There are plenty of results from PSE that are well known — RLN, TLS Notary, Semaphore, MACI, a lot of interesting research projects

They’re a research group not a startup incubator


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I think a central organization that has to prop up companies to keep them alive isn’t ‘great for the ecosystem.’

My read of your OP is that you think EF should’ve thrown their social capital behind zk companies to keep them from disappearing (?)

any of these got traction?

research without traction isn't great for the ecosystem

also this is false dichotomy — ef doesn't have to chose to be only incubator or only research group

there are a lot of types in-between