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"

This is probably the best explanation 😂

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.

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.