# Devcon #6 - Bartek Kiepuszewski

*Author: David Hoffman*
*Published: Oct 28, 2022*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/devcon-6-bartek-kiepuszewski*

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**Bartek** is the founder of Layer 2 Beat, finding himself in the middle of what we’re calling the Layer 2 Wars. Previously at MakerDAO, Bartek is pioneering the one-stop platform for the Layer 2 landscape.

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### TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro

2:30 Bartek in Colombia

4:00 Fixing Layer 2

7:25 Building and Forking

9:45 zkEVM

13:30 EVM Equivalence

14:30 Optimism Bedrock

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### RESOURCES
Bartek Kiepuszewski

https://twitter.com/bkiepuszewski
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