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TaikoTAIKO

Overview

What is Taiko?
Taiko is an L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Taiko was founded by Daniel Wang, Brecht Devos, and Terence Lam and launched in 2024.
How does Taiko work?
A proposer batches users' transactions and assigns proposed blocks to a prover. Both the proposer and the prover earn a portion of the transaction fees collected.
Who governs Taiko?
TAIKO tokenholders own and govern the protocol. Taiko's investors include Hashed, GSR, IOSG Ventures, Generative Ventures, etc.
ExpenseL1 validators' share of fees$80L1 validatorsRevenueTaiko's share of fees$20Connects L1 validators and usersFeesTransaction fees$100Users
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