Equilibrium Labs

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #30 covers Obol's release of Charon V1, Geographical decentralization of Ethereum, Reth 1.0, and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Obol released a production-ready version of their DVT middleware, Charon. Distributed validator technology (DVT) enables multiple nodes to collaborate on running an Ethereum validator ("multi-sig for validation"). Charon is the middleware client that sits between the validating client and its connected beacon node, enabling existing Ethereum validator clients to operate together as part of a DV cluster. Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - Research on the geographical decentralization of Ethereum Nodes - Research on MegaETH and their design choices - Paradigm releases Reth 1.0 - Vitalik's recent post around pre-confirmations - ZK FM podcast episode on programmable privacy - Demo of Starkware's new Stwo prover (1,000x improvement) Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott 🎧 Bleeding Me Dry - Alicia Creti 💡 Faces Made Of Living Skin Make Robots Smile Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #30 covers Obol's release of Charon V1, Geographical decentralization of Ethereum, Reth 1.0, and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Obol released a production-ready version of their DVT middleware, Charon. Distributed validator technology (DVT) enables multiple nodes to collaborate on running an Ethereum validator ("multi-sig for validation"). Charon is the middleware client that sits between the validating client and its connected beacon node, enabling existing Ethereum validator clients to operate together as part of a DV cluster. Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - Research on the geographical decentralization of Ethereum Nodes - Research on MegaETH and their design choices - Paradigm releases Reth 1.0 - Vitalik's recent post around pre-confirmations - ZK FM podcast episode on programmable privacy - Demo of Starkware's new Stwo prover (1,000x improvement) Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott 🎧 Bleeding Me Dry - Alicia Creti 💡 Faces Made Of Living Skin Make Robots Smile Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #29 covers Pre-confirmations, RiscZero's zkVM 1.0, Privacy in Blockchains, and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Preconfirmations are promises (but not guarantees) of future execution or inclusion. They aim to increase the user experience in cases where final execution might take longer. There are many ways to implement them though in blockchains and each one inhibits tradeoffs. The article by Longhash offers a comprehensive overview of the current space. Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - Privacy in blockchains - what, why, how - Can blockchains and ZK help humanity survive? - RISC Zero launched their production-ready zkVM and published performance benchmarks. -  Tradeoffs with zkVM design Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties - Tom O’Neill 🎧 Harpists have 7 pedals - one for each note 💡 Joining an "AI" startup Link to the newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏

What do actually mean when we talk about privacy in blockchains and why is it difficult to achieve? 🔐 "Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world" - A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto Most people would agree that some privacy is valuable, yet most blockchains today are fully transparent. This reveals a lot of sensitive information and hinders wider adoption. We spent the last couple of months getting to the core of this problem and part 1 of our privacy series covers the "what, why, and how". In addition, we present a framework that can be used to evaluate current solutions and what tradeoffs they make. Part 2 will go deeper into the different options to achieve privacy guarantees, how they compare to each other, what tradeoffs they make, and more. Stay tuned... https://lnkd.in/dVFzxK94

ANNOUNCING: EQUILIBRIUM VENTURES (EQV) - An Engineering-first Venture Firm 🎉 I'm stoked to share this: We've launched our first venture fund, Equilibrium Ventures (EQV), supported by 70+ sr engineers who have helped build core infrastructure for major blockchains, including Starknet, Ethereum, Solana, Aptos, Polygon, Celestia, zkSync, Aleo, Polkadot, Ripple, and Algorand. Huge congrats to m honkasalo, Henrik Sundvik, and Chris(Topher) A. for making this happen. tl;dr this fund 🔬 conducts deep technical DD in blockchain infra and cryptography, and 🏗 actually helps founders build. Curious to know more? Check out the comments for our recent features 👇

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #28 covers Deep Reals, MEV on L2s, Blended Execution and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 A deep real is an inversion of a deep fake. This "fake until proven real" mindset is related to the attestation problem, which is only getting more acute with generative AI and marginal cost of producing content reaching 0. We're all for more decentralized means of providing "trust points", but these can be implemented in different ways. Blockchains may be part of the solution, but it's not the solution by itself. Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - MEV on L2s (a paper and a separate podcast on the same topic) - Polygon using Succinct's generic zkVM SP1 for the AggLayer - Starkware announced their expansion to Bitcoin (conditional on OP_CAT passing) - Fluent is aiming for blended execution, where apps on different execution environments can call each other seamlessly (WASM, EVM and SVM to start with) News From Our Partners 🔥 Aligned Hauz is a hacker house during ETH CC that is open for both residents and visitors. For us, "unaligned" is a play on the tribalism in crypto - to be unaligned is to be open to new ideas. Organized by EQ's very own Joakim Isoaho and a few others in the industry. Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf 🎧 Minoru Muraoka - Bamboo 💡 When Privacy Expires Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #27 covers New Lens Network, The ZK Endgame, Private UTXO discovery and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Lens network is moving to zkSync's ZK stack and aiming to build a volition for maximum flexibility (social transactions in validium mode, financial transactions in rollup mode). We expand on why this announcement is interesting, but overall seems like a very practical approach of an application choosing the infra to fit their specific needs! Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - ZK endgame by Gevulot - Overview of ZK adoption in Ethereum ecosystem - Private UTXO discovery (2nd place in recent ZK Hack) - Taiko's approach to Multi-Proofs - L2Beat's risk framework to evaluate different data publication networks - Research day 2024 videos now out! Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Ubik - Philip K. Dick 🎧 Sunchaser - Delta Sleep 💡 Mexican taco stand gets Michelin star Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏

🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #27 covers New Lens Network, The ZK Endgame, Private UTXO discovery and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Lens network is moving to zkSync's ZK stack and aiming to build a volition for maximum flexibility (social transactions in validium mode, financial transactions in rollup mode). We expand on why this announcement is interesting, but overall seems like a very practical approach of an application choosing the infra to fit their specific needs! Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - ZK endgame by Gevulot - Overview of ZK adoption in Ethereum ecosystem - Private UTXO discovery (2nd place in recent ZK Hack) - Taiko's approach to Multi-Proofs - L2Beat's risk framework to evaluate different data publication networks - Research day 2024 videos now out! Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Ubik - Philip K. Dick 🎧 Sunchaser - Delta Sleep 💡 Mexican taco stand gets Michelin star Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏