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.

Building pods.media to help you collect conversations.

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.

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?

I know better by now than to say “wen”, but we are making major progress right now, working iteratively towards getting fault proofs out the door.

A series of blog posts is forthcoming, but recommended reading for now includes

A series of blog posts is forthcoming, but recommended reading for now includes https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/tree/develop/specs