Scaling Ethereum To The Next Level with zkEVM
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today for this deeply technical conversation is RiscZero CEO Brian Retford and Justin Drake. RiscZero is attempting to create a zkEVM for Ethereum that will require such low compute requirements that validators could be run on smart watches and mobile phones.
Moderated by Justin Drake, we take a look at the implications this tech can have on the future of Ethereum.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
7:47 Validator On Your Smartwatch
12:16 Bandwith Requirements
15:00 Implications for mainnet scaling
18:57 Is This Our Multi-Core Moment?
21:35 What is RiscZero?
27:57 Why Build a zkEVM?
32:00 TLDR Summary
35:42 The 3 Steps To Snarks
41:40 Performance Unlocks
43:59 How close are we to all this?
51:54 How Secure is This?
57:34 Licensing this Tech
59:59 RiscZero Business Model?
1:03:53 What’s Next on The Roadmap?
1:06:15 Core Values of RiscZero
1:07:54 How Does Ethereum Look in 5 Years?
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Resources:
The Sci-Fi roadmap to Ethereum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NXxcGe7Ts
Brian:
https://twitter.com/BrianRetford
Justin:
https://twitter.com/drakefjustin
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Bankless Nation. |
| 0:01.0 | I'm very excited about the episode today. |
| 0:02.8 | David is out, and this episode gets technical at time, |
| 0:05.6 | so I have E3-searcher Justin Drake. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, I'm sure many of you know he's co-hosting with me today. |
| 0:12.0 | Some context as we get into this episode. |
| 0:14.5 | So we did a previous episode a few weeks ago |
| 0:16.8 | called The Sci-Fi Roadmap to Ethereum. |
| 0:19.3 | And in that episode, Justin Drake described the end game |
| 0:22.4 | for Ethereum. |
| 0:23.2 | And he said this, we snarkify everything. |
| 0:26.2 | In today's episode, we explore exactly what that means |
| 0:29.1 | and how we do it. |
| 0:30.1 | How do we snarkify everything? |
| 0:32.2 | Our guest today is Brian Redford. |
| 0:33.6 | He is the co-founder of What Might Be The World's First Type 1 |
| 0:37.2 | ZK EVM. |
| 0:39.0 | And if you don't know what that means, that's fine. |
| 0:40.5 | Neither did I, as we're getting into this episode. |
| 0:42.7 | And it turns out that building a Type 1 ZK EVM |
| 0:46.2 | is an important part of delivering what Justin Drake called |
| 0:49.4 | an enshrined roll-up inside of Ethereum. |
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