Leveraging zkEVM and Hyperledger Firefly for Enterprise — During Consensus by Coindesk 2023, the ConsenSys Mesh Enterprise ZK team was invited to present their recent applied R&D at the Hyperledger booth. The team explained how the zkEVM and Hyperledger Firefly can be combined for enterprises to enable decentralized business automation as a service. See the 30 min presentation…

The Case of Telecommunications — Digital transformation in enterprises serves as a catalyst for revenue growth and provides a competitive advantage against peers. According to the International Data Corporation, digitally transformed organizations are projected to contribute to more than half of global GDP by 2023, accounting for $53.3 trillion. …

How the Baseline Protocol Can Secure the Edge of Networks — Introduction There were approximately 15 billion Internet of Things connected devices in 2022. Since 2015, this number of devices has roughly doubled every three years. As IoT devices are utilized in more and more digital processes it is important to understand some basic underlying limitations in how these devices function: Virtually…

Applying Media Thinking to build a better Web3. — While speaking at ETH Denver 2023, ConsenSys Mesh protocol engineer and researcher Nick Reynolds laid out a sociological approach for assessing decentralized social networking, which he also lays out in this piece. By Nick Reynolds, Protocol Engineer & Researcher, @veramo/ ConsenSys Mesh In the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan developed a post-modernist…

We felt that we should begin this series by talking about data because it is the foundation of everything we do online. …

By Thomas Rush, Partner & Head of Cryptoeconomics Token design as a discipline has evolved hand-in-hand with the design of blockchains themselves. Over the past four years in particular, there have been massive efforts to increase a shared, common understanding of what constitutes successful token design. Unfortunately, existing analyses often…

ConsenSys Mesh’s Enterprise ZK Applied Research & Development team focuses on creating new trustless systems using zero-knowledge cryptography (ZKC), self-sovereign identity (SSI), and other emerging Web3 technologies. Recently the team has started studying the mobility space, which has seen $115B of new tech investment over the last decade. While vehicle…

And just like that, another ETH Denver has come and gone. It was wonderful to connect with so many of you IRL a few weeks ago. Here’s a recap of what we were up to. Our founder Joe Lubin gave a talk on the state of the ecosystem (we’ll update…

An ETH Denver spotlight. With so many of you at ETH Denver this week, we wanted to dedicate this month’s updates to providing a list of some events to not miss. …