This research library contains resources I will be using to inform a report on validity rollups that I am producing as part of the Human Rights Foundation's ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. Pull requests adding related and useful resources are appreciated!
Zero knowledge, from proofs to rollups
2013-08-19: Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness
2014-09-17: Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top
2018-08-15: Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts
2018-09-22: On-chain scaling to potentially ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation
2018-10-03: Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps
2019-01-03: Introducing Matter Testnet (Proposal: Multi-operator model)
2019-01-23: Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs
2019-04-03: SoK: Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols
2019-06-15: Minimal Viable Merged Consensus
2019-07-10: Trustless Two-Way Bridges With Side Chains By Halting
2019-08-28: Ethereum Smart Contracts in L2: Optimistic Rollup
2019-11-04: Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup: Deep Dive
2019-11-06: The “Why”s of Optimistic Rollup
2019-12-05: Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs Strike Back
2019-12-11: Commentary on Greg Maxwell's analysis of zkSync
2020-01-23: Fighting censorship attacks on smart contracts
2020-02-05: Zendoo: a zk-SNARK Verifiable Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Enabling Decoupled and Decentralized Sidechains
2020-06-11: CoinPool, exploring generic payment pools for Fun and Privacy
2020-07-17: Rollups improve scalability vs Rollups increase throughput
2020-10-03: SNARKs and the future of blockchains
2020-10-08: The Optimistic Rollup Dilemma
2020-12-23: Avail: The Data Availability Blockchain
2022-01-13: RSK scalability
2022-01-22: A Token Model for Layer-2 Block Production
2022-02-16: Pay Attention To Celestia
2022-02-21: CoinPool: efficient off-chain payment pools for Bitcoin
2022-03-01: Introducing AnyTrust Chains: Cheaper, Faster L2 Chains with Minimal Trust Assumptions
2022-03-24: Bitcoin zk-rollups
2020-11-04: The Blockchain Debate Podcast
2020-10-14: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem
2021-04-23: Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup Debate: Optimism, Starkware, Arbitrum and zkSync
2013-05-19: Computational Integrity - applications to Bitcoin
2017-09-19: The Data Availability Problem
2019-03-15: Scalable blockchains as data layers
2019-06-24: ZK Rollup - Ethereum Scalability with ZKPs
2021-10-20: Rollups and Data Availability - Building a Modular Blockchain Stack