Drake – Dec LM

Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain

Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.

Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake Introduces ‘Beam Chain,’ a Total Redesign of the Network’s Consensus Layer

The Beam Chain groups a number of big-ticket upgrades, including zero-knowledge support and fast finality, into a single Ethereum upgrade.

Ethereum Researchers Relinquish EigenLayer Roles Over Conflict of Interest Concerns

Researchers Justin Drake and Drankrad Feist set off a controversy in May when they revealed that they'd accepted big token payouts from EigenLayer, raising conflict of interest concerns.