A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

ELI5 difference between zk and optimistic rollups

Zk - "I trust no one"
Op - "most people aren't dicks, I hope"

but it’s really not “most people” but at least 1 person who has enough money to pay for a challenge on the settlement layer within a week.

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Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs.
Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase.

Attribs: Friendly, curious, introverted, mid-witted.
Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism




I think people would be quite happy with the 7 day challenge period once they actually see a challenge take place.

Wen cannon, so we can have a based, ungoverned OP stack rollup for everyone to play PvP on?

This AND any observer of the main chain can have instant certainty about the correct L2 state. You need to wait 7 days for a withdrawal yes, but you don’t need to wait to find out if the withdrawal is going to work.