Forecasting the sustainability of blockchain scalingI recently published a blog post presenting a model for forecasting blockchain scalability. It covered the following:Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022
4844 — it ain’t all gravytldr — 4844 reduces data availability costs for rollups, but adds a new single honest party assumption to both optimistic and zk rollupsApr 18, 2022Apr 18, 2022
Rollups at scaleRollups provide blockchain scaling by moving execution off-chain. Data required by other parties to compute the rollup state is made…Nov 22, 2021Nov 22, 2021
Fraud proofs and virtual machinesRollups provide blockchain scaling by moving execution into a different domain. Transaction data is put on the main chain, but the…Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021
Published inanydotVerified history, the missing block hashesWe can minimise the barrier to entry for projects that want to integrate with PISA but to do so we need more block hashes in the EVM.Sep 26, 2019Sep 26, 2019
Published inanydotState channels with state assertionstl;dr In the worst case scenario state channel applications need to played out fully on-chain at high cost. We can leverage ideas from…Feb 11, 20192Feb 11, 20192
Published inanydotChannelising MixEth with the Counterfactual frameworkLast week I visited the L4 team in Canada with the intention of learning about the Counterfactual framework they’re contributing to, and…Dec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018