05-28, 11:00–11:25 (CET), Seed
Real-time proving (RTP) using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) solves rollup fragmentation issues prevalent today by enabling running a rollup that instantly settles on Ethereum. This also enables improved composability across existing rollups compared to current bridging solutions and improves intents (EIP-7683). While real-time ZKP generation is still years out, this is a solution that work
I am Orest, the co-founder and CTO of t1, a protocol for real-time proof generation designed to unify Ethereum. I previously was an early engineer at Scroll working on a ZKP rollup to solve for scaling the Ethereum blockchain. During my time as an engineer, I’ve learned that—while rollups scaled Ethereum—they also isolated users, fragmented liquidity and broke composability between ecosystems. Users are locked into an individual rollup ecosystem unless they use third-party bridges. Application developers must choose between low transaction costs and access to Ethereum users, applications and liquidity. This fragmentation weakens the network effects crucial for the growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. To fix this, we must achieve real-time proving in a faster and cheaper manner than what ZKPs offer.
Orest is 𝚝𝟷’s co-founder and CTO. He previously worked as an early engineer at Scroll, the leading Ethereum zkRollup L2. He also started zkWarsaw, a tech community running ZKP events. Before that, he co-founded and served as CTO at Knit, a video calling app, and Cara Care, a mobile health platform recently sold to Bayer.