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Rollups, ZkEVM and Sharding with Toghrul Maharramov (Scroll) | Buidl Radio #3

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Buidl Radio
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Wed 03 Sep 2025
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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rollups-zkevm-and-sharding-with-toghrul-maharramov-scroll-buidl-radio-3--67623121

Welcome to this episode of Buidl Radio, where we dive into the complex world of Zero Knowledge Proofs. Join us as we welcome special guest Toghrul Maharramov to discuss the difficulties of designing ZKEVM, the spectrum of Zk-rollups, other exciting use cases for zero-knowledge, time lock encryption, and much more.
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3:00 Why is ZKEVM so hard to design?
7:35 You can build rollup with anything
9:20 Spectrum of ZKEVM: the difference between ZkSync, Scroll, etc
13:44 Additional assumption of Rollups 
14:48 Upper bound of scalability using Rollups
18:20 How to decentralise Rollups?
26:16 Fare ordering, Time lock encryption
29:30 Other use cases for Zero Knowledge
39:35 Sharding as a scaling solution
44:42 Danksharding and Proto-Danksharding
51:28 Ethereum Glossary by Chat GPT 
55:20 L3 == Bullshit?
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We mentioned:
ZKEVM https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-zkevm-an-innovation-that-could-boost-ethereum-transaction-speeds
EVM https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/
ZK-Rollups https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/scaling/zk-rollups/
Scroll https://scroll.io/
ZkSync https://zksync.io/
Optimistic Rollups https://101blockchains.com/optimistic-rollups/
Flashbots https://www.flashbots.net/
Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1465.pdf
Time-lock puzzles and timed- release Crypto https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf
VDF https://vdfresearch.org/
MEV https://www.coindesk.com/what-is-miner-extractable-value
Cosmos https://cosmos.network/
Polkadot https://polkadot.network/
Proto-Danksharding https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq
Danksharding https://notes.ethereum.org/@dankrad/new_sharding
Adaptive corruption https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/comments/lrgfu9/what_is_adaptive_corruption_pos_blockchain/
KZG commitments (Kate commitments) https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html
Zcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zcash
Zcash Bug https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/
Ethereum Glossary by ChatGPT https://hackmd.io/@toghrulmaharram/ethereum-glossary-chatgpt
The artificial neural network created 10 questions for python job interviews. The same artificial neural network provided answers to these questions. https://github.com/andreysobol/dev_views_obsolete

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