Kevin.GOAT🌿

Thanks for the summary and making it easy to read!

Metis announced the Hybrid Rollup in 2023, so why is it only happening now?

Two main reasons.

Metis runs its own version of the OP Stack, so proving it meant building a zkVM for the MIPS program Metis already uses for fraud proofs - not grabbing an off-the-shelf prover and rewriting Metis in another language. Ziren was the harder path for our developers, and making it production-grade - through external security reviews, and now fast enough to prove Ethereum blocks in real time - took time.

Also, while it was being built, post-quantum went from a background concern to having a concrete deadline. NIST retires today’s curves by 2035, so the Ziren proof path is being made hash-based from end to end - no wrapper, switched in module by module.

This has all taken time, energy, and resources. But the result will be a post-quantum secure hybrid rollup on Ethereum. Worth the work and the wait.

Our team has taken the hard path on every decision for many years.

Build a zkVM from scratch on MIPS. A working decentralized sequencer set. A truly trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge. Post-quantum security in progress across the stack. And now real-time proving on Ethereum.

Ziren is already the heart of GOAT Network, and work is now underway to bring it to Metis.

The most trustworthy ledger humanity has ever built holds value better than anything else - and almost none of the world’s commerce can run on it.

I’ve never been able to get past that.

All that security doing one job, while commerce still runs on systems that ask you to trust somebody. Changing that is the entire purpose of GOAT Network.

谢谢Amelia和 @BiteyeCN 一直的支持！