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A Look At Dispute Resolution Protocols in Optimistic Rollups
Especially for optimistic rollups....Other optimistic rollups, such as Optimism, Cartesi, and Fuel, have also developed their own dispute-resolution...Optimistic rollups exist so that the L1, Ethereum, does not have to do the compute-heavy job of executing...
24 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jun 2024
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
Initia aims to solve cross-chain fragmentation by integrating three key components: OPinit – Optimistic...L1 (Initia) for atomic swaps between rollup tokens Users deposit assets into a L2 via the canonical optimistic...Instead of forcing users to wait for optimistic exits or rely on external bridges, Initia’s approach...
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025
ZKsync & The Elastic Network Endgame
Optimistic rollups inherit their name from their “optimistic” approach to handling the off-chain transactions...By default, Optimistic rollups assume that all transactions are valid....Instead, to safeguard against fraudulent or incorrect transactions being validated, Optimistic rollups...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
What Could Go Right?: The Upside of Optimistic Future Outlooks in an Increasingly Nihilist Present
Despite this common belief, I posit the opposite stance: the future is brighter than ever, and being optimistic...are reading this now proves that such pessimism is almost always wrong, and those who bet smartly on optimistic...Building the future: What Could Go Right While being optimistic is an excellent frame of mind for the...
13 Min
Artificial Intelligence
Jul 2025
MegaETH: Performance to Compete With TradFi
L1s and Rollups have struggled to meet these performance demands, with relatively longer block times...Ethereum Rollups are dealing with a serious handicap: DA saturation and the increasing costs that come...Rollups are collectively doing less than 300TPS today and unless DA capacity is pushed to maximum, will...
21 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2025
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
Are rollups using Celestia?...Ethereum rollups failed at this....Once enough rollups post to Celestia, Lazybridging kicks in and locks rollups in. ...It just needs to quietly onboard rollups....If you believe rollups will reach $100B+ in revenue, why not just bet on those rollups instead of $TIA...
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
zkVerify: Optimizing ZK Proof Verification At Scale
However, the current implementations of ZKPs in rollups and applications on a generalized smart contract...While most interoperability designs today utilize variations of optimistic verification for settlement...Faster Finality: In a system using optimistic verification, there is always a time-delayed window for...compared to their optimistic counterparts.
63 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
ZKsync & Elastic Network's Q1 Wrapped: Ecosystem & Development Highlights
ZKsync Era dominates ZK rollups, leading in TVS, proof volume, and user activity....addresses, 470,000 monthly active users, and nearly 1 million unique contract creators, ZKsync leads all ZK rollups...Representing over 27% of the total RWA market share, ZKsync Era is now positioned at the top among all rollups...
19 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
Rather, it functions as a system for developing and deploying rollups on Ethereum....It’s a purely optimistic setup — relying heavily on trust and it has a long way to go to catch up to...rollups like Arbitrum One and Optimism....The idea is simple yet radical: ditch traditional rollups with their dedicated node operators and build...
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Beyond the $HYPE: An Objective Analysis of Hyperliquid
Value Driver 1: Perps Product While the macro picture for DEXs may not look meaningfully optimistic over...Solana DEXs generally only trade Solana spot tokens while Ethereum and its rollups generally only support...low hanging primitives will attract an initial sum of liquidity over the coming 18 months, I’m less optimistic...
17 Min
DeFi
Feb 2025
The Fat App Thesis: An Inflection Point in Value Accrual
In that case, rollups were simply acting within their own incentivized behavior when it came to paying...In many cases, some rollups even switched off from posting data directly to blobs....Any meaningful value transfer, especially across rollups, must settle on the L1....Execution is fragmented across rollups and appchains.
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
Parallel Execution: Uses optimistic execution....Sure, some are optimistic, some are zk, and some are based; but they are all essentially the same product...Optimistic rollups such as Optimism, Arbitrum, Taiko, Fuel, and many others have been working on hybrid...by the cost parity of running a zk rollup as cheap as an optimistic rollup.
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
EVM Wars: Between Giga Gas and Giga Gimmicks
Ethereum’s current capacity is at 31.25 KB/s, and this is shared by all rollups using Ethereum as a DA...This has left blob space pretty much at capacity, and rollups are having to batch several blob updates...We have 4 rollups taking up over 85% of the blob space....If rollups have to scale further, they will consume more blob space, but Ethereum will not be able to...
13 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2025
zkVerify Memo: Integration Flow, Potential Markets, and Token Economics
Ethereum’s roadmap embraces ZK rollups, Solana leverages ZK compression, and even Bitcoin L2s utilize...Arbitrum is a leading optimistic rollup on Ethereum, with over $2.5B in TVL and more than 500,000 daily...
22 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Delphi Oracle Summary: Initia
...issues with bridges, DA bandwidth limitations, MEV extraction, and gas payments present in Ethereum rollups...schedule to prevent selling pressure Initia Architecture Combines L1 settlement layer, interwoven rollups...InitiaDEX, native oracle, and enshrined liquidity Solves interoperability issues through integrated IBC, optimistic...
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Scaling ETH L1: Is 100x Enough?
“Scaling the L1 will rug the rollups”. Yes, it will. But to a degree....In the past I’ve mentioned how rollups are inherently confined to the limitations of the L1....Scaling the L1 would then consequently result to greater scaling capacities for rollups....The highly optimistic view of this is that it will filter out the noise.
8 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2025
The Dawn of Bitcoin Programmability: Paving the Way for Rollups
In the case of Optimistic Rollups, fraud proofs require access to the transaction data along with the...The funds would be secured by the underlying Bitcoin miners until the optimistic withdrawal is settled...Rollups The full utility of these infrastructure components by the rollups is still in its infancy.
60 Min
Layer 2 / L2
May 2024
Restaking Games: Chasing for Yield
EigenLayer restaked validators, attest to the finality of a proposed block state transition submitted by optimistic...rollups’ sequencers to Ethereum....Ethereum lacks the speed these rollups need for optimal performance....with one of the products that generates the most revenue, rollups. ...
53 Min
Staking
Nov 2024
Avalanche L1s: Powering the Future of Appchains
This customization and independence set apart Avalanche L1s from Ethereum Rollups....Rollups, on the other hand, mainly rely on the Ethereum base layer for finality and DA.
22 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
The Year Ahead for DeFi 2025
Truemarkets operates with the Truth Oracle, an oracle that is objectively more secure then the current UMA Optimistic...For more on this, see our Bitcoin Rollups report....Starknet is extremely well positioned for the Bitcoin rollups narrative....New research also offers a contingency plan to ship Bitcoin rollups even without OP_CAT.
72 Min
DeFi
Dec 2024