This is the thesis behind zk rollups on Ethereum, with the top 3 projects (Starkware, ZKsync, and Polygon...) boasting a combined market cap of around $2.2 Billion ZK rollups on Bitcoin: The rise of L2s on Bitcoin...This is due to the technical complexity of zk rollups, which results in slower go-to-market timelines...ZK logins.

ZK Rollups vs....In contrast, zero-knowledge rollups, or short ZK rollups, operate differently by submitting validity...As a result, some ZK rollups only need to post state diffs to the L1, whereas Optimistic rollups must...rollups....Router, ZK Gateway, and ZK Chains.

ZK accounts allow trust-minimized withdrawal verification from rollups, making Celestia more like an...It’s not doing execution, not chasing restaking, AI, or zk hype....through native IBC and zk proofs....” property of ZK-SNARKs....For example, a rollup posts a ZK proof showing that a batch of txs were valid.

ZKsync Era dominates ZK rollups, leading in TVS, proof volume, and user activity....The Elastic Network expands as a ZK appchain hub in Q1, with 19+ ZK Chains leveraging modular architecture...rollups in key activity metrics....Representing over 27% of the total RWA market share, ZKsync Era is now positioned at the top among all rollups...

Logan is spearheading the development of Nockchain and its core ZK Powell (ZK Proof of Work) mechanism...

Rather, it functions as a system for developing and deploying rollups on Ethereum....It’s a purely optimistic setup — relying heavily on trust and it has a long way to go to catch up to rollups...Decentralizing the Sequencer Most rollups today have an Achilles’ heel: a single sequencer that unilaterally...game-specific rollups where players run the show.

There will be a zk EVM pre-compile that will simplify launching zk rollups, and developers won’t need...Transaction costs on ZK rollups are lower than ever 2....Applications Leveraging zkVMs Transitioning OP Rollups to ZK Rollups The shift from OP rollups to ZK...

Scaling There is some merit to the saying that “ZK is the endgame” when discussing scalability....Ethereum’s roadmap embraces ZK rollups, Solana leverages ZK compression, and even Bitcoin L2s utilize...Developers exploring and experimenting with zkVerify, such as hackathon rewards, grant programs, and ZK...

In the past couple of years zk protocols (mostly zk rollups) spent +$60M in gas to verify and post proofs...On the zk infra level, there have been 16.7M addresses which have triggered txs, mainly zk rollups, while...On the other hand, Infra layer, such as zk rollups, optimizes these transactions by bundling them together...

...across rollups....Initia (Rollups) OP Stack (Superchain) Arbitrum (Stylus) Infra to deploy rollups ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Supported...Interwoven Rollups (L2s): application-specific rollups in EVM, MoveVM, or WasmVM that settle to Initia...So Initia rollups would be fully interoperable and connected with both other Initia rollups as well as...

Especially for optimistic rollups....Optimistic rollups exist so that the L1, Ethereum, does not have to do the compute-heavy job of executing...The resulting ZK proof is submitted as a fraud-proof....Extent of Maliciousness As of now, Optimistic rollups collectively hold over $30 bn in TVL....ZK proof is submitted as a fraud-proof.

Ethereum’s current capacity is at 31.25 KB/s, and this is shared by all rollups using Ethereum as a DA...This has left blob space pretty much at capacity, and rollups are having to batch several blob updates...We have 4 rollups taking up over 85% of the blob space....If rollups have to scale further, they will consume more blob space, but Ethereum will not be able to...

In that case, rollups were simply acting within their own incentivized behavior when it came to paying...In many cases, some rollups even switched off from posting data directly to blobs....Any meaningful value transfer, especially across rollups, must settle on the L1....Execution is fragmented across rollups and appchains.

...earlier protocols lacked transparency, incentive design, or enforcement, 3Jane tackles all three: using zk-proofs...3Jane Bet,” digs into how 3Jane blends major infrastrucutre, cryptographic and mechanism design ideas: zk-proofs...(zkTLS and zk-coprocessors), dynamic credit pricing, and a modified Morpho-style money market to tackle...

L1s and Rollups have struggled to meet these performance demands, with relatively longer block times...Ethereum Rollups are dealing with a serious handicap: DA saturation and the increasing costs that come...In contrast, rollups—despite their supposed technical advantages—are failing to match Solana’s throughput...

...interact with identity verification like any other web2 service without needing expertise in things like zk...There are generally three categories of data handled by the system: biometric templates, zk-proofs, and...Zk-proofs are the cryptographic attestations that confirm a credential is valid without revealing the...

rollups....Finally, we take a look at some of the zk rollups building on top of BTC using these components....In zk Rollups, if the block builder / sequencer withholds the data, that part of the data – including...In the case of zk-light clients,zk proofs for block headers, transactions, along with validator signatures...

Susceptible to collusion & social engineering attacks (e.g., Proof of Humanity, PGP Web of Trust) ZK...With ZK-proofs, this allows you to store credentials locally on your device and selectively disclose...Instead, the system generates a zk proof (using semaphore zk-SNARKs) that mathematically proves “this...

With an emerging onchain personal finance meta and new zk-tools, the design space for disruptive apps...For more on this, see our Bitcoin Rollups report....Starknet is extremely well positioned for the Bitcoin rollups narrative....Starknet is currently liquid and is a frontrunner in the Bitcoin rollups race.

rollups SVM SDK for building appchains: This would be settlement agnostic For its zk rollup, Molecule...In the future, the Full zk Rollup phase will combine validity and consistency proofs into a single zk...ZK Compression and Interoperability Among SVM Rollups ZK compression can be used for interoperability...