This chapter discusses the significance of UX and Devx in layer one and layer 1.5, emphasizing the need for building with good UX for speed and expressivity. It also mentions the deployment of smart contracts on ZK Sync.
In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski of Matter Labs to hear about zkSync, the latest iteration of their zkRollup implementation built to be a scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum. We also touch on the Redshift protocol, a new transparent zkSNARK system that emerged as a result of work on this system.