Jarrod Watts (@jarrodwatts) • Hey

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EIP-4844 is coming to Ethereum tomorrow. What does this mean for Polygon chains? Here’s what’s going to happen for Polygon enjoyoors: **1/ It’s coming to zkEVM in May** While 4844 goes live on Ethereum tomorrow, it will be coming to Polygon zkEVM testnet in April, and is estimated to go live on mainnet in early May, as part of the zkEVM Feijoa upgrade. **2/ Transaction fees will be reduced by 2X - 5X** Until it goes live, it will be hard to know exactly what the cost reductions are, but between a 2X to a 5X reduction in fees is estimated. This price reduction comes from the introduction of the blob storage in 4844. The zkEVM currently posts all transaction data back to Ethereum within calldata, which will change to use this new blob storage. Storing transaction data is currently responsible for ~80% of zkEVM fees. As this becomes cheaper to do with blob storage in 4844, so do transaction fees for users. **3/ What about CDK / PoS chains?** The Polygon PoS chain doesn’t benefit from 4844 as it’s not a rollup; and therefore doesn’t use Ethereum calldata to store transaction data. For Polygon CDK chains, support for 4844 will be included later this year, which will provide similar price reductions in chains that are using Ethereum calldata for DA. Any CDK chain that is using other DA solutions (including validium chains) already experiencing low transaction fees and won't be affected by 4844.
Spent a lot of time this week reading up on ZK proofs and ZK EVMs. Just posted a ~10-minute summary of everything I learned on my blog. https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/how-zk-proofs-and-zkevms-work10-minute
Spent a lot of time this week reading up on ZK proofs and ZK EVMs. Just posted a ~10-minute summary of everything I learned on my blog. https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/how-zk-proofs-and-zkevms-work10-minute
Just released a new video going in-depth into Polygon's new PoS proposal, plus a brief history of Ethereum's scaling solutions → https://youtu.be/8tBb0ro_Syk
Polygon has made a proposal to change its PoS chain to become a zkEVM Validium. This will be a big change for Lens and a massive number of other projects. But... ◆ WTF is a Validium? ◆ What's this mean for Polygon PoS? ◆ How's this different from Polygon's zkEVM Rollup? I wrote a (~5 min read) blog post explaining it in simple terms: → https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/polygon-pos-is-becoming-a-zkevm-validium-explained
Ship an NFT Collection to Polygon zkEVM in 3 minutes
Chat GPT inside VS Code! Find bugs, add comments, explain code, and more 😎 1) Install this VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gencay.vscode-chatgpt 2) Add your OpenAI API Key to VS Code 3) Start asking questions!
Some alpha on a project I’m working on 👀 So excited to release it soon, really proud of this landing page design too 😁
I'm working on something 👀
I just released a new video! Talking about account abstraction and EIP-4337 🤠 Includes: - Ethereum accounts & transactions - Why web3 UX sucks - History of account abstraction - EIP-4337 and why it's different https://youtu.be/RFsUuihO_aY
Video on account abstraction shipping tomorrow 🫡
Shipped a new video! Titled "Stop Using Ethers.js For Web3 Apps" Experimenting with this kind of clickbaity, discussion-type video rather than coding! Talking about the options you have as a web3 frontend developer; ethers.js, web3.js, wagmi, and the thirdweb React SDK. Here's the link if you're interested: https://youtu.be/gUsgFDAY_3w
Creators posting their discontent of web2 social media revenue while also actively posting anti-web3 content 🙃
Do you think Lens profile NFTs should be non-transferable? Why/why not?
Shipped a new video! Titled "Stop Using Ethers.js For Web3 Apps" Experimenting with this kind of clickbaity, discussion-type video rather than coding! Talking about the options you have as a web3 frontend developer; ethers.js, web3.js, wagmi, and the thirdweb React SDK. Here's the link if you're interested: https://youtu.be/gUsgFDAY_3w
How I built my developer portfolio using AI Using tools like Midjourney, GitHub Copilot and Chat GPT, I'm rebuilding my portfolio website using AI! #bytes
Started working on a new portfolio for myself as a weekend project
Lens feels so much healthier to use in comparison to Twitter. Feels like I don’t need to worry about how the algorithm is going to treat my post or that I have to try format it a certain way to get attention on the stuff I’m working on. I can just share cool stuff how I want to. 🫡
I normally don't like developer roadmaps, as I think they put you in an impossibly long time frame of consuming resources that don't make you apply your knowledge. I took a stab at writing my own **roadmap for becoming a web3 developer** that addresses these issues, encouraging you to leave the roadmap ASAP and start building alone. Rather than giving you infinite things to learn, I literally *want* you to leave the roadmap and come back when you're stuck. I've curated various forms of educational content I personally used to learn frontend development and web3, all from trusted sources so that you don't have to filter through the noise. Here is the link: https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/how-to-become-a-web3-developer-in-2023
Tried out Midjourney today, and it generated absolutely incredible assets for me. Here are 4 of my favorites:
I normally don't like developer roadmaps, as I think they put you in an impossibly long time frame of consuming resources that don't make you apply your knowledge. I took a stab at writing my own **roadmap for becoming a web3 developer** that addresses these issues, encouraging you to leave the roadmap ASAP and start building alone. Rather than giving you infinite things to learn, I literally *want* you to leave the roadmap and come back when you're stuck. I've curated various forms of educational content I personally used to learn frontend development and web3, all from trusted sources so that you don't have to filter through the noise. Here is the link: https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/how-to-become-a-web3-developer-in-2023
Created this diagram for architecting web3 applications and the tools available to help you build the different pieces of the puzzle. Anything I missed?
I'm trying out @wav3s - a tool that lets you pay users who share your content on Lens! 🌿 You can earn 1 Matic by simply mirroring this post (up to 100 Matic)! 🌟 I really love that we can monetize and pay directly through the platform. This is the power of web3 social ⚡️ (gm) Good luck!
Excited to announce the ULTIMATE guide to Lens Protocol!🌿 It's a 5-hour course on building a full social media app, including: - What Lens is and how it works - Sign in with Lens - Feed page - Profile pages - Create page - Following other users And much more! ⬇️ https://youtu.be/e1mPmDRUUBc
Hello world testing creating a post from chainblog.io