ZK11: Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets - Wenhao Wang
17 Apr 2024 · 15:43
Yale University researcher Wenhao Wang presents his work on mechanism design for zk-rollup prover markets, recorded at Zero Knowledge Summit 11 in Athens. He explains why transaction fee mechanisms like EIP-1559 fail to sustain a prover market, then walks through designs pairing a user-side auction for transaction inclusion with a Vickrey auction among provers competing to generate validity proofs. The talk covers efficiency and resistance to manipulation, including Sybil attacks and off-chain collusion, as the core design goals.