<aside> 💡 Entering Ethereum’s Layer 2 (L2) era, ZK Rollup is one of the best scaling solutions. What can be sparked when Zero Knowledge Proof meets Rollup? What are the strengths of ZK Rollup when compared with other scaling technologies? How can it be adopted quickly? How to capture value in the era of ZK Rollup from an investment perspective and what kind of applications will be innovated?

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Author: Lewis Liao, Senior Investment Manager, Zonff Partners

Table of content

  1. Why Should We Pay Attention to Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollup?

– Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup

  1. What Is the Landscape of the ZK Rollup Scalability Solution?

– ZK Rollups Players Comparison

– Advantages of ZK Rollup

– Limitations of ZK Rollup

  1. What Does the Future of Scaling Look Like

– Technology Issues

– Go-to-Market Issues

– Go-to-Community Issues

  1. How to Invest in Scaling Ecosystem

Why Should We Pay Attention to Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollup?

Zero-Knowledge Cryptography is known as one of the most underrated technologies of our generation. Not as pervasive as stories about artificial intelligence and big data, it receives little attention in the press. Still, the technology is a great breakthrough that guards our valuable privacy in the big-data age where personal information has nowhere to hide.

ZK Cryptography is a broad subject. In this article, however, we only focus on only one area most relevant to blockchain: Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP). ZKP is a non-interactive zero-knowledge argument method. It assumes there are two parties: prover and verifier. The prover wants to prove to the verifier that they know something without revealing what it is. Meanwhile, the latter verifies the proof and accepts or rejects it. Three properties of the method are as follows:

1.Completeness: any valid result can prove a given program.