Protocol Berg 2023
2023-09-15
Berlin, Germany
who it's for
protocol researchers, blockchain engineers, node implementers, rollup developers, storage engineers, cryptographers, infrastructure engineers
topics
indexing Ethereum mainnet; bloom filter indexing; decentralized sequencer architecture; optimistic rollup proofs; recursive zk-SNARKs; permanent decentralized storage; Erigon node database designs; Testground network testing; metadata-private data transfer; proposer privacy techniques; protocol upgradability mechanisms; retroactive public goods funding
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Indexing Ethereum Mainnet for Near Zero Cost | Thomas Jay Rush, Dawid Szlachta | 24m |
Proposes adding get appearances in a block to RPC so nodes return every address seen per block, and demonstrates TrueBlocks’ toolchain: Shifra scrape to… | ||
| Retroactive Public Goods Funding: 2 Rounds in | Jonas Seifert | 24m |
Retroactive Public Goods Funding experiments dedicate sequencer revenue to reward public goods and iterate on process design: Round 1 (Oct 2021) uses $1M… | ||
| Linux & Ethereum: Commoning vs Commodifying | Trent Van Epps | 26m |
Argues that Linux and Ethereum are digital commons whose code and social governance get overlaid by companies that can enclose value; shows clients and node… | ||
| Decentralized and Shared Sequencer Architecture | Elizabeth | 24m |
Argues for a staking-based leader election to run multiple sequencer proposers, with sequencers limited to batching, ordering and making data available while… | ||
| Metadata-private data transfer | Will Scott | 27m |
Survey of practical methods for hiding who accesses what and how well they actually scale Tor and Nym style mixnets give strong unlinkability at the cost of… | ||
| Permanent Decentralized Storage Landscape in 2023 | Garrett MacDonald | 17m |
Compares Filecoin and Arweave head-to-head: Filecoin treats storage as off‑chain marketplace with IPFS integration, multiple node implementations (Go, Rust)… | ||
| Evolution of Optimistic Rollup proofs | Protolambda | 28m |
Compares concrete proof designs: interactive bisection vs non‑interactive ZK methods, how EIP-4844 changes data‑availability costs and therefore proof size… | ||
| Blockchain node DB designs: from Geth to Erigon | Igor Mandrigin | 23m |
Erigon abandons live Merkle trees in the hot path and stores accounts and storage as flat key-value storage, then computes roots in a separate merkleization… | ||
| Testing large scale networks with Testground | Viet | 23m |
Testground runs reproducible, large-network experiments on Kubernetes and let teams spin up 100 validators and 1,000 light nodes to automate workload, network… | ||
| A Future to Protocol Upgradability | tina | 16m |
Current practice relies on pausability, timelocks and emergency operational procedures and those tradeoffs create centralized intervention points like single… | ||
| The Anoma Protocol and its Design Process | D++ | 22m |
Anoma claims a minimalist, canonical protocol syntax that separates identity and resource formats from trust semantics so different communities pick consensus… | ||
| Recursive SNARKs for Efficiency, Scalability, and Privacy | Philipp Kant | 27m |
Claims that Mina uses Ouroboros Samasika plus recursive zk‑SNARKs to let each new block include a succinct proof that it and all prior blocks connect to… | ||
| Whisk: returning privacy to Ethereum proposers | dapplion | 21m |
Proposes Whisk, a single-secret leader election using a verifiable secret shuffle: validators commit C(K)=KG, shuffles multiply commitments by random scalars… | ||
| Best of Both Worlds: Exploring the Role of Centralisation in IPFS | Dennis Trautwein | 24m |
The system introduces three semi-central components: IPNI indexers that index ~100× more provider records than the DHT and publish advertisements containing… | ||
| Indexing the Planet For Good | Masih Derkani | 24m |
An indexer for IPFS and FileCoin called IPNI publishes compact signed advertisement chains and uses context ID pointers so providers add or remove huge groups… | ||
| Operation-level Concurrent Transaction Execution for Ethereum | Yajin (Andy) Zhou | 25m |
Proposes executing EVM transactions at the instruction level so only conflicting operations get re-run instead of whole transactions, implements it on… | ||
| beyond indexers trustless application data snapshots | Sebastian Buergel | 21m |
Describes a trustless snapshot system that appends events into an on‑chain hashed list and publishes periodic root snapshots so large off‑chain topology files… | ||
| Worldcoin Maximally private digital identity | Remco Bloemen | 38m |
A system claims a global, privacy-preserving proof-of-personhood by scanning irises with an Orb iris scanner that produces an iris code checked against a… | ||
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