The Design Space of the ZK Stack

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The ZK stack gives you the ability to create a network of blockchains that are called hyperchains. They can take the form of either an L2 or an L3 depending on what the use case particularly is. So we've got some really exciting partners. I think with respect to announcing specific names, I will leave it for them to make their own announcements. But definitely in terms of some of the early use cases, they want to be able to have interoperability with the broader ecosystem.

Alex Gluchowski and Anthony Rose join us to discuss zkSync's ZK Stack and how Hyperchains enable composable applications at scale. We cover the ZK Stack design and ZK Credo, the security tradeoffs of various Hyperchain implementations, how Hyperchains enable shared composability, zkSync's forced tx inclusion mechanism, Hyperchains vs Cosmos appchains and more!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:50) Interview Start: zkSync

(04:06) The ZK Stack Announcement + ZK Credo

(08:32) Why Use the ZK Stack?

(14:05) Implementations and Security Tradeoffs

(26:39) Hyperchain Composability

(29:52) The Priority Queue: Forced Transaction Inclusion

(34:59) Account Abstraction

(38:20) Customization and Application Specificity

(42:24) Decentralizing Sequencers and Provers

(52:14) Hyperchains vs Cosmos Appchains

(57:00) ZK Stack ELI5 and Early Partners

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Resources:

zkSync

https://zksync.io/

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ZK Credo

https://github.com/zksync/credo

ZK Stack Announcement

https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1673317167628967936

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