The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts an all star crew of all of the leading Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup scaling projects for an in-depth debate. See the transcript on our site as well.
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Show Notes:
2:00) - (First Question) Eli's Intro.
(2:26) - Alex's Intro.
(2:43) - Mark's Intro
(2:57) - Liam's Intro.
(3:17) - Ed's Intro.
(3:40) - Ben's Intro.
(4:30) - Optimistic roll-ups.
(5:42) - Key differences between Arbitrum and Optimism.
(8:13) - What is Starkware doing compared to Optimism.
(11:20) - Optimistic vs ZK roll ups.
(20:19) - Differences between fraud proofs and validity proofs.
(29:07) - What would happen if the network splits and two parties propose progress in different directions?
(21:18) - Mark thoughts on fraud proofs.
(28:34) - Thoughts on attacks on Ethereum.
(40:02) - Optimism and Arbitrum plans to reach high scale / Signatures / Price feeds
(57:55) - Optimism progressing into production on Ethereum.
(01:01:00) - Thoughts on bootstrapping usage and adoption - Starkware/zkSync/Optimism.
(01:11:57) - Is the roll-up ecosystem going to be sort of a winner take all?
(01:20:10) - Where to find Starkware.
(01:20:55) - Where to find zkSync.
(01:21:57) - Where to find Optimism.
(01:22:43) - Where to find Arbitrum.
(01:23:25) - Where to find Ben Simon.
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