The L2 Wars: Which L2 is winning? | EP 15

Imran and Qiao bring on Mohamed Fouda to talk L2s.

No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:34) Welcome to Good Game! 
(00:48) Welcome Mohamed Fouda 
(03:01) What is a rollup? 
(08:51) Difference between optimistic rollups and ZK rollups 
(09:24) Optimistic rollup explained 
(10:29) ZK rollup explained 
(11:09) Validium explained 
(13:21) The different Zero Knowledge proving systems 
(17:41) Why choose zk-STARK or zk-Snarks? 
(20:26) What is a trusted setup? 
(21:25) What is a ZK circuit? 24:24 What happens during a ZK rollup transaction 
(29:33) Current state of ZK rollups and tradeoffs they're making 
(32:24) TVL growth of Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync Era, Polygon zkEVM 
(38:00) How Solana out-executed its competitors 
(40:59) What is recursion? 
(44:34) What is EVM compatibility? 
(48:14) Comparing L2 fees 
(50:58) Why Solana is cheaper 
(53:10) What AllianceDAO is seeing in developer activity 
(56:13) What is Rollups as a Service? 
(58:49) How do new founders choose? 
(1:02:45) What is a sequencer? 
(1:08:37) What is data availability? 
(1:14:27) Future vision of ZK rollup specialization

Mohamed Twitter: @mohamedffouda

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