Podcast

The zkWars | zkSync & Scroll

The zkWars are heating up. With 3 different teams recently announcing their zkEVM, we’re joined by Alex Gluchowski of zkSync and Ye Zhang of Scroll.

Aug 3, 2022 • 1 min read

Optimism’s Ben Jones cohosts as we explore why zkEVM is such a big deal, the respective roadmaps to mainnet, and of course… wen token?

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:15 Crypto 101

10:00 Alex and Ye

13:25 zkSync

18:20 Scroll

22:30 What's Different about zkSync

31:10 What's Different about Scroll

37:15 zkProof Performance

41:30 Decentralizing Provers

46:30 Approaching Developers

57:07 Challenges to Upgrading

1:03:40 Vibe Check

1:09:20 Centralized Keys

1:17:45 Closing

RESOURCES

Ben Jones

https://twitter.com/ben_chain

Alex Gluchowski

https://twitter.com/gluk64

Ye Zhang

https://twitter.com/yezhang1998

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