Thread by @ethereumintern_

one of the key insights about rollups is that they can not only be differentiated technologically, but culturally as well, while remaining secured by ethereum.

i'd like to highlight some of the unique (on both axes) and intriguing rollups i've seen

the L2 thread, 1/13

inshAllah (@inshAllah_l2): an islamic L2 designed for creating an environment for onchain halal finance. they are currently building a staking product called goldsand, a liquid staking service whose validators do not include haram transactions within ethereum blocks, such as those involving lending.

2/13

redstone chain (@redstonexyz): an optimium built by the @latticexyz team that focuses on being fast and cheap for low-value uses such as onchain games. it keeps DA offchain and only submitting it onchain if a dispute is created. it's part of the @Optimism superchain.

3/13

megaeth (@megaeth_labs): the 'real-time blockchain', a validium coming soon that is relentlessly optimizing every part of the stack to the point where the only bottleneck is hardware and aiming to hit over 10 Ggas/s and 1ms latency. it puts even the VC chains advertising absurd tps counts to shame while remaining secured by ethereum.

4/13

taiko (@taikoxyz): a 'based' rollup, meaning it uses ethereum's validators to natively sequence transactions, rather than relying on a centralized sequencer or its own sequencing network.

it is a contestable rollup that accepts different types of validity proofs under the principle of security by defense in depth, where people can contest other proofs with more secure proofs, or even composite proofs (e.g. ZK + SGX)

5/13

gasp (@Gasp_xyz): a MEV-free crosschain DEX rollup connected to multiple L1 and L2 chains at once. it uses @eigenlayer to guarantee cross-L1 economic finality. it's currently in testnet.

(the name is fitting: when i first read about how it worked, i gasped)

6/13

fluent (@fluentxyz): a ZK rollup with a "blended execution environment", meaning EVM (ethereum), WASM (rust, C, etc) and SVM (solana) apps can run side-by-side and interact with each other with more VMs potentially coming soon. it's currently in devnet

7/13

eclipse (@EclipseFND): a L2 on ethereum that uses the solana VM, allowing solana devs to quickly port over their dapps to be secured by ethereum instead. it's already in mainnet right now

8/13

optimism (@optimism): known for OP Mainnet and the OP Stack. what interests me most here isn't the tech itself, but rather the governance.

it is a form of 'digital democratic governance', governed by a mixture of democratic voting and token voting and it focuses on funding impactful public goods with retroactive public goods funding.

9/13

metal (@metal_l2): a L2, unlike many of the others on this list, focused on compliance and regulation rather than a cypherpunk ethos. built by @MetallicusTDBN, it's onchain finance designed for banks and other financial institutions.

10/13

aevo (@aevoxyz): a derivatives exchange with options, perpetuals & automated trading strategies, all running on a custom OP Stack rollup. it's designed to provide maximum CEX-like user experience and high performance while remaining secured by ethereum.

11/13

kinto (@KintoXYZ): a rollup similar to @metal_l2, built to be like a fintech platform. all users and developers must KYC and apps are insured to protect user funds from hacks.

12/13

that's a wrap! have a nice day, buy more $ETH, and check out all those projects if you're interested as well.

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