The No Execution Podcast

Toghrul Maharramov from Scroll - Protocol Deep Dives with Celestia (Ep 1)

Episode Notes

We sit down with Toghrul Maharramov, researcher at Scroll, to discuss Scroll's zk rollup with Celestia Labs team members Mustafa Al-Bassam and John Adler.

Timestamps 🕐

0:00 Start

0:19 Scroll introduction

4:23 Why build a rollup

6:12 Scroll’s current stage of development

7:23 Design decisions

10:15 Phase 1 overview

14:44 Phase 2 overview

18:50 Q&A

19:21 Limitation of zkVMs for gas metering

21:47 Verifying correct data is published to L1

27:41 FPGAs & ASICs for proving

29:22 Prover markets

31:39 Parallel proving

33:20 Decentralized sequencers

35:03 Parallelizing the EVM

39:10 Merkle trees

40:45 Removing the self-destruct opcode

42:07 Commitment structures

44:55 Closing remarks

 

Toghrul Maharramov on twitter 

Scroll on twitter 

Mustafa Al-Bassam on twitter 

John Adler on twitter 

 

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What is Celestia? ✨

Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. By decoupling consensus from execution, Celestia enables anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain, without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. Blockchains on Celestia are free from constraints. They are simultaneously scalable, sovereign and secure. Developers want Celestia over monolithic architectures for more flexibility and the freedom to build on their own terms.