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How Arbitrum is Scaling Ethereum, Layer 2 Challenges, Governance Scandal and ZK Threats

The Defiant - DeFi Podcast

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The Cost of Proof of Stake in Ethereum

One chain live today, it takes them about 13 hours to generate one of the ZK proofs for a batch of roughly 500 transactions. That's not instant, right? That's actually much worse than instant. The benefits that you get from validity proofs only happen once you actually have the validity proof on chain. But in optimistic rollups like arbitrum, your proof, your transaction is put on chain very, very quickly.

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