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Unifying Ethereum with AggLayer | Justin Drake & Brendan Farmer

What will it take?
Brendan Farmer Brendan Farmer Ethereum Ethereum Justin Drake Justin Drake Polygon Polygon
Apr 3, 2024 • 01:22:51
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Inside the episode

This is the 3rd episode in our “Fixing Fragmentation” series. In today’s episode, we’re joined by technical co-host and Ethereum researcher, Justin Drake and Polygon co-founder and AggLayer creator, Brendan Farmer.

Brendan developed a compelling design to increase the safety and efficiency of cross-L2 composability—more robustness and lower gas costs. Polygon has fully embraced Brendan's design and is developing AggLayer to pursue, what it calls, “the aggregated thesis,” a powerful synthesis of the modular and monolithic theses. AggLayer perfectly complements shared sequencing and is a significant step towards the "United of Chains of Ethereum" vision.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:35 Explaining the Unification Solution

5:30 AggLayer Topology

7:50 Inspiration for the AggLayer

15:50 Solving zk Fragmentation

22:15 Should Ethereum Be Optimistic?

24:13 AggLayer Universal Synchronous Composabilty

33:50 AggLayer Structure

35:30 Proof Aggregation

41:30 Should We Be Fearful?

48:52 AggLayer Gradually Uniting the Chains

55:55 Next Milestone Timelines

1:10:15 Topology of Liquidity of the AggLayer

1:16:30 ENS Example

1:19:10 AggLayer x Espresso

1:20:14 March 2025

1:22:02 Closing & Disclaimers

RESOURCES

Justin Drake

https://twitter.com/drakefjustin

Brendan Farmer

https://twitter.com/_bfarmer

Fixing Fragmentation Series

https://www.bankless.com/fragmentation

https://www.bankless.com/justin-drake-ben-fisch-the-united-rollups-of-ethereum

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