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General
Espresso Systems| 3 min read
At Espresso Systems, we are building the tools and infrastructure to bring Web3 applications mainstream, taking on challenges from privacy to performance. Over the last year, we have been excited to...
Espresso Systems| 4 min read
The Espresso Sequencer is a system that decentralizes transaction sequencing for layer-2 scaling solutions on Ethereum without compromising on their scale and speed. At the core of the Espresso...
The Espresso Sequencer is a system designed to decentralize layer-2 (L2) scaling solutions. Today, we are releasing our first milestone in our development of the Espresso Sequencer: Espresso Testnet...
Engineering
Binyi Chen and Benedikt Bünz| 8 min read
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1355 The core building block of both privacy and scalability for blockchains are zero-knowledge proof systems. These systems allow a prover to convince a verifier...
Following the collapse of Terra in May of 2022, cryptocurrency markets experienced a period of extreme fear. The talk was ‘contagion’ as institution after institution appeared to have been exposed...
Ben Fisch| 7 min read
In wake of the US Treasury department sanctioning Tornado Cash (TC), people (including myself) have resurfaced the idea that users of privacy protocols like TC can use zero-knowledge proofs to...
Espresso Systems| 6 min read
When designing the Configurable Asset Privacy (CAP) protocol and its implementation on Ethereum (CAPE) , we had a few use cases in mind, like providing a mix of privacy and risk management for...
Jill Gunter| 4 min read
Last week, several key players in the cryptocurrency and Web3 ecosystem halted assets or stopped providing services to certain wallets in an effort to ensure compliance with new sanctions against...
Jill Gunter| 6 min read
Until recently, financial systems worldwide offered users very few choices. There was a limited set of currencies you could access depending on where you lived. There were certain assets you might...
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