In this episode, we will be exploring StarkWare and DeversiFi’s collaboration - a Layer 2 STARK-powered exchange for Ethereum assets. Guests Tom Brand (https://twitter.com/bbrandtom), product manager at Starkware (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), and Will Harborne (https://twitter.com/will_harborne), co-founder of DeversiFi (https://twitter.com/deversifi), discuss the project, how it works under the hood and give us a glimpse into what they have planned for the future.
We also look at how Validium, that is Layer-2 scaling solutions in which the validity of all transactions is enforced using zero-knowledge proofs, while data availability is kept off-chain, differ from other layer 2 scaling solutions like Plasma, Optimistic Rollup and zkRollup, and discuss the axioms used to quantify these differences.
Here is some of additional material:
- Matter Labs Blog post defining Validium (https://medium.com/matter-labs/evaluating-ethereum-l2-scaling-solutions-a-comparison-framework-b6b2f410f955?source=collection_home---6------1-----------------------)
- Deversifi Blog post about the collaboration (https://blog.deversifi.com/introducing-deversifi2-0/)
- Starkware's STARKEx explained (https://starkware.co/product/starkex/)
At the beginning of the episode, Anna and Will also discussed their joint project ZKValidator (https://zkvalidator.com/) which works on Cosmos, Polkadot and Kusama.
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