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TypeScript
86 lines
3.9 KiB
TypeScript
import { ProjectCategory, ProjectInterface, ProjectStatus } from "@/lib/types"
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export const plasmaFold: ProjectInterface = {
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id: "plasma-fold",
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image: "",
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name: "Plasma Fold",
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section: "pse",
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projectStatus: ProjectStatus.ACTIVE,
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category: ProjectCategory.RESEARCH,
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content: {
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en: {
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tldr: "Integrating folding schemes into plasma-based L2 solutions for efficient and scalable Ethereum transactions.",
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description: `
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## Plasma Fold
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**Reimagining Plasma with Folding Schemes**
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Plasma Fold is an experimental Layer 2 (L2) design that combines the original Plasma architecture with modern zero-knowledge folding schemes to dramatically scale Ethereum transaction throughput. By leveraging recent advances in Incremental Verifiable Computation (IVC) and folding-based proof systems, Plasma Fold achieves high-speed client-side proving while keeping on-chain data to a minimum.
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Unlike traditional rollups that post extensive transaction data to L1, Plasma Fold operates using a *minimal data availability* model inspired by Intmax, where only essential metadata—like tree roots and signer indices—are recorded onchain. Validity is ensured through user-generated proofs, making this model far more efficient for resource-constrained environments.
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## Why Plasma Fold?
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Most L2s today struggle to scale without relying on increasingly expensive data availability solutions (e.g., blobs). Plasma Fold offers a low-cost, high-throughput alternative. Inspired by Vitalik Buterin’s vision of a Plasma-EVM hybrid, Plasma Fold explores the use of folding schemes to support lightweight client-side proving—ideal for mobile or browser-based clients. In theory, this architecture could enable transaction rates in the range of 90k–260k TPS, matching or exceeding centralized systems like VISA.
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## Key Innovations
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- **Client-Side Proving with Folding Schemes:** Users generate recursive ZK proofs on their devices to attest to their own balances and transactions, minimizing trust and computation on the L1.
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- **UTXO-Based Design with IVC:** Transactions are modeled as UTXO trees, allowing users to maintain and prove their own balances incrementally across time.
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- **Minimal Onchain Footprint:** Only block roots, nullifier indices, and signer bitmaps are posted on L1—greatly reducing gas costs and data needs.
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- **Instant Exits & Offline-Friendliness:** Users can exit the system at any time using a locally stored proof. They do not need to stay online between blocks unless actively transacting.
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- **Composable and Future-Proof:** Designed to eventually support multiple assets, order books, and potentially even programmable features.
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## Status
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- **Stage:** Research and Prototyping
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- **Current Focus:** Implementing and benchmarking core circuits
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- **Target Output:** A technical paper and reference implementation
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- **Team Lead:** Pierre Daix-Moreux
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- **Collaborators:** Chengru
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## Timeline & Milestones
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- **Q2 2025:** Initial circuit design and benchmarks against Plonky2
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- **Q2–Q3 2025:** Drafting formal paper; collaborative review with Intmax
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- **Q3 2025:** Reference implementation using Sonobe’s Nova-based tooling
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- **Beyond:** Explore multi-asset support, privacy enhancements, and programmability
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## Learn More
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- [Technical Write-Up on Intmax2](https://www.pierredm.xyz/posts/intmax)
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- [GitHub – Sonobe](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/sonobe)
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## Get Involved
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Join the conversation on [PSE Discord](https://discord.com/invite/sF5CT5rzrR)
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`,
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},
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},
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team: [
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{
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name: "Pierre Daix-Moreux",
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email: "pierre@pse.dev",
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links: {
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twitter: "https://twitter.com/xyz_pierre",
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},
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},
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{
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name: "Chengru Zhang",
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email: "winderica@pse.dev",
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},
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],
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tags: {
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keywords: [
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"plasma",
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"folding schemes",
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"Ethereum",
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"scalability",
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"L2",
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"zero-knowledge proofs",
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],
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themes: ["scalability", "L2 solutions", "zk proofs"],
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types: ["research", "development"],
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},
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}
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