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Scaling Ethereum To The Next Level with zkEVM
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English - August 30, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 942 ratingsInvesting Business Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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