Awesome Blockchain Scalability

A curated list of awesome resources about blockchain scalability.

• The Meaning of Decentralization, Vitalik Buterin
• Redefining Scalability, StarkWare
• Blockchain full nodes, decentralization, and scalability: an impossible challenge?, Polynya

Sharding

• Data Sharding Roadmap - The rollupooors' perspective, Daniel Goldman
• New sharding design with tight beacon and shard block integration, Dankrad
• Simple approach to incentivizing shard staggering, Ethereum Research
• EIP-4844: Proto-Danksharding, liam.eth

Data availability

• What Is Data Availability?, CoinMarketCap
• Data availability sampling in practice, Vitalik Butern
• Separating the Monolith, pseudotheos
• A note on data availability and erasure coding, Ethereum Research
• Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities, Mustafa Al-Bassam et al.
• LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts, Mustafa Al-Bassam
• How to — And How Not To — Use Data Availability Committees, Offchain Labs

Related

• Erasure code, Wikipedia

Rollups

• Layer-2 for Beginners, Gourmet Crypto
• Layer 2 Rollups, Ethereum
• An Incomplete Guide to Rollups, Vitalik Buterin
• Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs, StarkWare
• Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup: Deep Dive, Matter Labs
• A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap, Vitalik Buterin
• Evaluating Ethereum L2 Scaling Solutions: A Comparison Framework, Matter Labs
• The benefits of optimistic rollups compared to ZK Rollups, Alex Beckett
• The path towards scaling rollups, Alex Beckett
• Zk Proofs & Rollups, Polybase

ZK Rollups

• Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer, Matthew Green
• Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer, Part 2, Matthew Green
• Ethereum-powered ZK-Rollups: World Beaters, Canti
• Hasu gets STARK-pilled - with Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare), Uncommon Core
• What are Zero Knowledge Proofs?, Decrypt
• STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials, Vitalik Buterin
• ZK HACK
• Fractal Scaling: From L2 to L3, StarkWare
• Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity, Eli Ben-Sasson et al.
• Anatomy of a STARK, Asze Pieniec
• ZK-STARKs, EthHub
• Introduction to ZK-STARKs, Remco Bloemen
• A Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs, Eli Ben-Sasson
• zk-STARKS Explained by Quantstamp, Quantstamp
• A Succinct Story of Zero Knowledge, Nalin Bhardwaj
• Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge, Justin Thaler
• zkSNARKs vs zkSTARKs: a primer, pseudotheos
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs: STARKs vs SNARKs, Consensys
• On the Road to StarkNet: A Permissionless STARK-Powered L2 ZK-Rollup, StarkWare
• zkSync is Live! Bringing Trustless, Scalable Payments to Ethereum, Matter Labs
• Zero-Knowledge Blockchain Scalability, Ethworks
• Simple Explanations of Arithmetic Circuits and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Hadas Zeilberger

Others zk resources aggregators:

• ZK: Zero to Hero, Resilient Monarch
• Stark Math, StarkWare
• STARK @ Home, StarkWare
• Awesome StarkNet, Georgios Konstantopoulos
• Awesome zero knowledge proofs (zkp), Matter Labs

Optimistic Rollups

• Optimistic Rollups: the present and future of Ethereum scaling, Offchain Labs

• (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup, Paradigm

• Optimistic Rollup, from the Bottom Up, Ali Atiia

• Optimism Docs

  • OVM Deep Dive, Optimism
  • How does Optimism's Rollup really work?, Paradigm
  • The roas to sub dollar transactions: part 2 - compression edition, Optimism

• Arbitrum Docs

  • What is Arbitrum?, CoinMarketCap
  • Multi round Fraud Proofs: What, How, and Why., Arbitrum

Others rollup resources aggregators:

• Idan’s Rollups Repo, Collidervc

Volition

• Volitions: best of all worlds, Polynya
• What is zkPorter?, zkSync
• zkPorter: a breakthrough in L2 scaling, Matter Labs

Cosmos model

• A Cosmos Thesis, Paradigm Research
• Increasing scalability of the EVM for rollups by restricting state and contract set, Celestia Forum
• An open, modular stack for EVM-based applications using Celestia, Evmos, and Cosmos, Mustafa Al-Bassam

Parallelization

• Speeding up the EVM (part 1), Flashbots

Stats

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