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devcon 6 / public private composability

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Public-Private Composability

Duration: 00:24:17

Speaker: Mike Connor

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Oct 2022

Learn about the challenges of designing a private execution layer for Ethereum. Previously, smart contract execution (L1 & L2) has been fully public. Some apps provide basic private functionality for a single private state (e.g. privacy coins). We'll discuss ways to execute general private and public state changes across multiple smart contracts in one transaction, within a zk-rollup. This unlocks programmable private smart contracts.

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