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Introducing the CAKE framework

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In 2020, the Ethereum network transitioned to a rollup centric roadmap for scaling. Four years since that decision more than 50 rollups (L2s) are already live in production. While rollups provide much needed horizontal scaling for the EVM blockspace, it has totally ruined the user experience. Users should neither care, nor know, which rollup they are interacting with. Crypto users knowing which rollup (Optimism or Base) they are interacting with is equivalent to web2 users knowing which cloud provider (AWS or GCP) they are interacting with. Chain Abstraction is a vision where chain information is abstracted away from the user. The user only connects their wallet to a dApp and signs for the intended operation, the details of making sure that the user has correct balance on the target chain and and then executing the intended operation happens behind the scenes. Over the course of this article, we will observe that Chain Abstraction is a truly multi-disciplinary problem. Involving intera

Chain Abstraction is a piece of CAKE 🍰 ✍🏼 by Ankit Chiplunkar & Stephane Gosselin for Frontier Research 🗓️ 15th Feb 2024 TL;DR The default crypto UX today is for users to always know which network they are interacting with. However, users of the internet don't have to know which cloud provider they are interacting with. Bringing this approach to blockchains is what we call Chain Abstraction. This article introduces the CAKE framework i.e. Chain Abstraction Key Elements. It is composed of four layers: Applications, Permissions, Solving, and Settlement, which collectively facilitate seamless

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