Espresso Systems is hiring! Fueled by a new round of investment led by a16z crypto and with angel support from founders and contributing organizations to some of the most forward thinking L2 rollups and infra projects, including Arbitrum (💙,🧡) Polygon | Aggregated Taiko 🥁 Scroll 📜

⭐️ #Espresso completed a $28M Series B Round

Espresso Systems is a Layer1 blockchain system that combines PoS consensus and a ZK-Rollup mechanism to achieve high throughput and low fees.

Activities:

- validator form(y3at7jy5knf.typeform.com/to/KgayxNsX?ty…)
- testnet(rollup-info.altlayer.io/public/kyoto)

We’re excited to announce that Espresso Systems has raised a $28 million Series B round led by a16z crypto.

An important and insightful post by the team at Informal Systems 🌱 explaining:

responsiveness
optimistic responsiveness
optimistically responsive Tendermint

Tendermint
is
(optimistically)
responsive

Read the full article to understand in more depth: informal.systems/blog/tendermin…

ICYMI: Based Espresso: A marketplace for shared sequencing. Sequencers can sell their sequencing rights to proposers. Proposers can buy multiple rollups at the same time and satisfy cross-rollup intents (e.g. atomic execution). Learn more here hackmd.io/@EspressoSyste…

Based Espresso:

Off-chain pre-confirmation, based rollup sequencing, rollup composability, are here.

The Espresso Sequencer exists to scale Ethereum rollups.

To support this vision, we're excited to unveil our work integrating with the @Arbitrum stack.

This integration is a part of our latest testnet release:

Gibraltar.

It's exciting to see discussion about shared sequencing, preconfirmations, and Espresso Systems in Ethereum Foundation's Reddit AMA yesterday! My thoughts in this thread:🧵
reddit.com/r/ethereum/com…

Proposer-promised Preconfirmations and BFT preconfirmations explained! hackmd.io/@EspressoSyste…

Today is a historic moment in US history. Students are begging Congress to instruct their universities to keep them safe. This is insane.

Listen to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student Talia Khan. Consider the risk she is taking by speaking truth to power.

The only answer is for Kornbluth to go now, before she has blood on her hands.

A Message from MIT Jewish & Israeli students to President, Sally Kornbluth, after her shameful testimony in congress.

Will President Kornbluth acknowledge that MIT betrayed these students in not providing them safe environment on campus for educational & research activities?

The presidents of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

The

When the president of MIT
Sally Kornbluth, president of UPENN Elizabeth Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay were asked whether calling for the murder of Jews is considered a violation of the university's code of conduct or an act of harassment,