In this week's roundup, the Roundup crew discusses the launch of Unichain, Succinct’s Prover Network testnet, and the economics of being a prover. Additionally, they “A Crisis of Trust”, and how ZKPs can be applied outside of crypto. Finally, they end the episode with discussion on BOLD and fault proofs. Enjoy!

Resources

Succinct’s Prover Network Testnet Announcement: https://x.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1888999158541087134

A Crisis of Trust: https://x.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1889749373854294295

Aries Markets is the largest lending protocol on Aptos by TVL, and among the top 10 lending protocols across all blockchains! Since launch, Aries has expanded its product suite to become a fully integrated DeFi hub combining lending, borrowing, and more to its community of 738,000+ unique users.

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Marinade is the premier staking delegation platform on Solana, bringing billions in liquidity and security to the Solana network, and connecting SOL holders to the best staking rates.

Since launching in 2021, Marinade has expanded their suite of products to provide solutions for both DeFi users and TradFi, including liquid and native staking, as well as direct enterprise integrations.

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Uniswap Labs is running a $15.5 million bug bounty for critical bugs found in Uniswap v4, the largest bug bounty crypto has ever seen!

This bug bounty follows nine independent audits of the protocol, and aims to make it one of the most rigorously reviewed codebases ever deployed to Ethereum.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(2:50) Ads (Aptos and Marinade)

(3:19) Unichain Goes Live

(27:36) Ads (Aptos and Marinade)

(28:47) Succinct's Prover Network Testnet

(34:54) Economics of Being a Prover

(44:59) Uniswap Ad

(45:50) A Crisis of Trust

(59:31) BOLD & Fault Proofs

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