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Shivanshu Madan

Shivanshu Madan

I break down degen-speak into plain English.
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The Cathedral and Bazaar of Zero Knowledge

I examine the design approaches to decentralized proving and build up towards what seems like the most likely future of ZK proofs - open proof markets.
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Rollup Decentralization - Does it matter?

Recently a lot of discourse on Crypto Twitter (Crypto X?) has been around the decentralization of L2s. Are the rollups we’re building decentralized enough? Or are they at least on the path to decentralization? Does it even matter?
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The Polygon Upgrade: From PoS to Validium

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic recently published a proposal to upgrade the Polygon PoS network to a zkEVM Validium.
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Rollups for Dummies

This post was marked UNSAFE from the rollups debate