From TEEs to ZK: The Pragmatic Path to the Rollup Future Is Conditional Settlement
In the race to evolve blockchains, two technologies have emerged as the foundation for rollup pessimistic security: Zero-Knowledge proofs and Trusted Execution Environments, both offering very different tradeoffs. ZK proofs promise cryptographic finality, but they’re expensive, complex, and slow to evolve. TEEs offer a faster, more flexible alternative, one
