Justin Drake & Ben Fisch: The United Rollups of Ethereum
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we do a shared sequencing deep dive with repeat guest, Mr. Moonmath himself, the Blockchain Brainiac, and the Ethereum Evangelist– Justin "The Juggernaut" Drake. Justin is joined by The Sultan of Sequencing, the Espresso Emperor, the Cross-Rollup Connoisseur himself, Ben, the Blockchain Barista Fisch.
Where the fragments of Ethereum threaten to turn the digital ecosystem into a maze of confusion, these two men stand tall, illuminating the way, to come and save us from the labyrinth of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:09 Goals For the Episode
8:32 Sequencing / Sharing Explained
15:13 Ethereum’s Arc
18:20 Shared Sequencing Obstacles
23:52 Network Effects & the Cold Start Problem
32:54 MEV Redistribution
45:25 Reserve Price
46:45 Loss of Sovereignty
54:34 Espresso Announcement!
1:03:52 Fast L2 Finality
1:09:52 Real-Time, Recursive Proving, & Hardware
1:13:32 Flash Loans & Snark Proving
1:15:38 Low Latency Finality
1:17:08 Censorship Solutions
1:21:50 Discussing the Downsides
1:35:38 Known Unknowns of the Future
1:39:46 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Justin Drake
https://twitter.com/drakefjustin
Ben Fisch
https://twitter.com/benafisch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:06.0 | And today on Bankless, we explored the frontier of composability of Ethereum's roll-up-centric |
| 0:10.8 | roadmap. |
| 0:11.8 | Today on the show, we have Justin Drake as my technical |
| 0:13.9 | co-moder as we both interview Ben Fish, the CEO of Espresso Systems. |
| 0:18.6 | Espresso is building a shared sequencer that operates at a higher plane than the ethereal |
| 0:23.4 | one that allows for shared execution amongst the ethereal-roll-up landscape. |
| 0:28.2 | The frontier that espresso is building in is becoming more and more relevant as |
| 0:31.9 | the fragmentation of ethereal's roll-ups become more and more relevant as the fragmentation of |
| 0:33.2 | Ethereum's roll-ups become more and more obvious. Yet there are a bunch of |
| 0:36.4 | solutions being built in parallel and Espresso unlocks a lot of them, a lot of |
| 0:40.8 | innovation, as allowed to come into the world of composability across |
| 0:43.8 | Ethereum's roll-ups. At the beginning of this episode I really make sure that we |
| 0:46.8 | drill down into the foundations of this conversation, the 100-level-200-level basics, before I kind of let |
| 0:52.4 | Justin Drake take the reins and get into some of the deeper |
| 0:55.1 | ends the more technical nuances of shared sequencing. |
| 0:59.0 | So I think this episode is accessible to all skill levels. |
| 1:02.6 | If you are at the beginning of your arc of understanding Ethereum, |
| 1:05.2 | you're going to catch a vibe and then if you are deep into the weeds, |
| 1:08.8 | I think you're going to really enjoy the second half of this episode. |
| 1:11.8 | But first we're going to talk about Sui and the Sui |
| 1:13.7 | Bascamp, which is a in-person conference in Paris during Paris blockchain week, April 10th through 11th. So if you are |
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