STARK verification as a Transparent Zcash Extension (TZE), i.e enabler for a Starknet‑style L2 on Zcash

[januszgrze]

Hey @abdel - great to see you outside of the bitcoin space

Super interested in this. I wrote this proposal a year or so ago (there are technical errors in the post fwiw), but conversations at the first Zeboot shifted towards Zcash having its own rollup ecosystem versus rolling up somewhere else.

Zcash to sovereign rollup

Introduction This post only focuses on zk-rollups. Thank you to Cooper Kunz and c-node for feedback which influenced edits made to the original draft. Thank you to @joshs, @pacu and @aquietinvestor for their review. Zcash community – This post is to solicit discussion and feedback around the possibility of Zcash deprecating the Zcash Layer 1 (L1) blockchain, and seeing the Zcash protocol become a Sovereign Rollup. In this design, Zcash will become a lightweight blockchain that sovereignly oper…

This might be an interesting GitHub issue to review. It was re-discussed during my presentation at the first Zeboot 18~ months ago. Shielded transaction aggregates · Issue #4946 · zcash/zcash · GitHub

Let me know if you would like me to review any other documentation/ideas you have on this. I know there’s an appetite for this. Nate (shielded labs) and I discussed this idea recently on a Twitter space with ZecHub.