ZK Rollup Fundamentals

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Where optimistic rollups say "assume it's right unless someone proves otherwise within a challenge window," zero-knowledge rollups flip the assumption entirely: "prove it's right, up front, before it's ever accepted." Every batch a ZK rollup posts to L1 comes bundled with a cryptographic validity proof — a succinct piece of mathematics that lets an L1 smart contract verify, in a……

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