Build your own rollup with Eclipse. Eclipse is a customizable infrastructure platform that enables the development of customized rollups. In their own words: Your fully-configurable, composable infrastructure platform supporting a blockchain designed just for you — with no compromise on security, reliability, or convenience. What is the thesis behind Eclipse? As rollup solutions become easier to develop, more and more apps that…

LONG LIVE THE MEMES A tale of greed, lack of self-respect, and billion-dollar frogs. Long Live the MEMES. What would have 2023 been without MEMES? Francesco is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe They are like a…

A glimpse into the future of MEV and how solutions are trying to change MEV from a dark forest to a sunny beach. MEV bots have extracted more than $1.5 billion from Ethereum users across a variety of use cases. The concept of MEV is controversial and some argue that…

On April 18th, 2023 Rocket Pool launched Atlas, a much-awaited upgrade for the LSD protocol.

Stader Labs’ value proposition is to contribute to the decentralization of the nodes on Ethereum by providing a cheap and profitable way to run a permissionless node. Most of the nodes’ infrastructure on Ethereum is centralized (~50% of all staked ETH flowing through the top 3 entities). Running a permissionless…

Are you ready to protodankshard? EIP-4844 is the first iteration of the sharding design of Ethereum. Sharding is a way for Ethereum to have more data go through the network. Francesco is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. …

A proposal on Arbitrum governance forum raises the issue of MEV and L2 Sequencers, What is the best way to order transactions? How Does MEV Work? 3 main actors involved: Honest User: only wants to buy / Sell; Proposer: their job is to take a list of pending transactions and decide the final order; Searcher: look for MEV opportunities, bundle them up, and pay the proposer to include the bundle.

The first zkevm mainnet is now live, by zksync The wait for zkevms is over! zkSync Era is officially live. This is a historical moment for the crypto community as a whole. This is the first of their rollout stages and the product can be considered an Alpha release. …

The most interesting L1 Proof-of-Work Network building on Bitcoin The vision behind this project is to build a Nakamoto-like service that operates on internet speed. We wanted to build a system that surpasses the limits of Satoshi’s v1 protocol (aka the Nakamoto Consensus) yet adheres to the same principles embedded in Bitcoin - Yonatan Sompolinsky Kaspa is a Layer…