BOB’s (Build on Bitcoin) recent launchpad for Hybrid ZK rollups, almost entirely powered by OP Kailua has been making waves. So the promise of combining the low-cost operation of optimistic rollups with the quick finality of ZK rollups is tempting. Let's not break out the bubbly quite yet. I'm seeing...
Is BOB here to render the rest of the Layer 2s irrelevant? Nah, probably not. But are they really forcing them to sweat more than a DeFi trader on a flash crash day? Absolutely. And it’s all due to this Hybrid ZK Rollup shindig. Forget your grandpa's blockchain – this...
This makes BOB the first Ethereum scaling solution’s Hybrid ZK Rollup to reach this important mark. Yet this creative approach is a very big step forward into the unknown. Eth2 addresses long-standing issues of security, scalability and decentralization of the Ethereum network. Anjali Mehra, a DeFi opinion columnist known for...
BOB has achieved one of its most important milestones! It is now the first blockchain to implement Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs as fraud proofs inside a hybrid rollup architecture. This gamechanging combo combines the efficiency and scalability of ZK rollups with the low cost and simplicity of optimistic rollups. Together, these...
