There's a meme going around Twitter that Solana is fast because it doesn't merklize its state. ... And to some extent, this is true. In the Sovereign SDK, for example, we find that our (mostly unoptimized) merkle tree update currently takes at least 50% of our total
ZK-rollups are revolutionizing blockchains, but until now, it has been a real challenge for developers to deploy them. That's why we are thrilled to introduce the alpha release of the Sovereign SDK, a development toolkit that allows developers to launch their applications as zk-rollups. What is the Sovereign
There’s a broad misconception in the crypto space that zk-rollups have a very long time-to-finality. In this post, we’ll explain why first-generation zk-rollups take so long to finalize, and how we can achieve lower latency without sacrificing security. By solving this problem, we’ll motivate a design for
In our announcement blog post, we sketched out a vision of a future in which creating a zk-rollup is as easy as launching a dapp. This blog post seeks to explain how we’ll realize that vision. Before we dive in, a quick warning - this post will be somewhat
