Consensus Where it Counts: Rethinking Base Layers for the ZK Era | bedlam

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A big thank you to our reviewers: Aaron Elijah Mars, Alex Sirac, Arthaud Mesnard, Voynich, François Garillot, Jacob Everly, Jeremy Bruestle, Nuke, Prince Sinha, James Parillo, Peteris Erins, Patrick O’Grady, Phil Kelly, Polynya, Rajiv Patel O’Connor, Raul Kripalani, Teemu Over the last week, we’ve seen multiple proposals for the roadmap of Ethereum’s Consensus Layer. Most notably, Justin Drake laid out his vision for the ZK era of Ethereum in his talk at Devcon 2024. Dubbed the beam chain or the beam fork, it batches a number of big ticket upgrades for Ethereum, including lowering slot times, faster finality and the ‘snarkification’ of Ethereum’s consensus. The proposal has been met with mixed reactions around its ambition and the timeline for these changes. However, we should also acknowledge how important caution should be for Ethereum given the size of its economy. Despite this acknowledgement, it is useful to consider what a maximally ambitious future of the base layer for a rollup

Written by: krane , lamby ( Asula ), sylve , lancelot ( Hyle ) _A big thank you to our reviewers: Aaron Elijah Mars , Alex Sirac , Arthaud Mesnard , Voynich , François Garillot , Jacob Everly , Jeremy Bruestle , Nuke , Prince Sinha , James Parillo , Peteris Erins , Patrick O’Grady , Phil Kelly , Polynya , Rajiv Patel O’Connor , Raul Kripalani , Teemu _ Introduction Over the last week, we’ve seen multiple proposals for the roadmap of Ethereum’s Consensus Layer. Most notably, Justin Drake laid out his vision for the ZK era of Ethereum in his talk at Devcon 2024 . Dubbed the beam chain or the bea

Consensus Where it Counts: Rethinking Base Layers for the ZK Era | bedlam

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