Why Native Rollups? 🧵(1/5) Security • For EVM equivalent - Don’t need to worry about bugs, automatically updates with L1 hard forks • No concerns regarding proving bugs, you get proving from L1 nodes. If there is an exploit in prover, L1 hard forks • Multi Prover - you automatically inherit multi proving (multiple ZK proofs) for Stage 2 • Note, Stage 2 still requires 30day exit window, no instant upgrades. Ease • Any dapp can be deployed onto Native shards without any modifications at all (don't have to worry of difference between rollups or to L1) • Easy to launch a decentralized Native rollup (assuming based sequencing) - Low case is about 100 lines contract with single tx call • This also reduces legal risk if decentralized

“There are many problems today with ZK.” We invited @donnoh_eth (Researcher at @l2beat) to present at our Berlin Ethproofs Summit to give a contrarian perspective on ZK - and that's exactly what we got. Some key takeaways: • Verifiers are opaque. Smart contracts can be inspected, but once you hit a ZK verifier you’re looking at random numbers - and without reproducing the verifier from source, you can’t know what’s really being proven. • Reproducibility is hard. Many projects don’t publish the exact commit hashes or tooling versions needed to regenerate their verifiers. In some cases, it’s practically impossible to confirm what’s running on-chain. • Custom tooling adds risk. Each project builds its own stack, making verification complex and inconsistent across the ecosystem. • Audits aren’t enough. Audits can be partial, outdated, or miss fixes. Simply claiming “fully audited” is misleading without transparent links and scope. Luca’s core point: ZK doesn’t necessarily eliminate trust. Instead, it shifts it - and the challenge is minimizing and clarifying where that trust lies. Watch to the full talk:

Blind signing is risky. I’ve been using a simple script for years to safely preview transactions before sending them. With some AI-assistance, I turned it into a CLI tool so you can easily simulate your transaction before broadcasting. 👉

omg we just hit blob capacity and the blob base fee doubled from 1 wei to 2 wei thanks big red candle 🙏

am i the only one who thinks that these new L1s do not mean anything for anyone? we’ll just see the effects when they will want to interoperate with one another and will need to decide where this should happen

one big source of confusion in the stages framework is that if a rollup is stage 1 or stage 2, it doesn't mean that anything you do there has stage 1/2 guarantees. this is especially evident with external bridges but doesnt limit to them. here's an old diagram on "action stages"

Monero is getting 51% attacked. Devs might need to change the proof of work algorithm away from RandomX. It was designed to be CPU friendly and GPU resistant by simulating a VM with a lot of branching logic, which doesn’t work well on GPUs. I wonder where the CPUs are coming from

The design space of Ethereum rollups is huge. I am not going to deny that assessing @0xFacet was challenging for the whole team as its design is not what you would expect from a typical rollup. Nevertheless we love being challenged and as a result some new dashboards related to canonical and externally-bridged assets are in the works. The most challenging aspect of @0xFacet is undoubtedly its non-standard gas token. It's use challenges the core definition of a "canonical" asset as normally we assume that gas token must be bridged canonically but what if you don't really "bridge" gas token at all ? What is a canonical asset and canonical bridge then ? Read the full review and @0xFacet announcement for more technical details.

I’m in Turkey, Izmir. They are telling my lawyer that I helped people to misuse @ethereum and I might have a charge. You can imagine what it means. It’s obviously wrong, we are just infra builders. I can’t say much because I don’t have information and I don’t know if I will still be able to talk with others. Please talk with @pabloeperello, @rj_aligned or @fran_aligned.

wow!! happy to see more ratings in the space