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🚄 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! 🙏