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Celestia - An introduction to sovereign rollups

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Sovereign rollups are an idea that emerged from Celestia exploring new blockchain designs. They aren't exactly like their smart contract rollup predecessors on Ethereum. Sovereign rollups incorporate ideas from multiple designs, mainly layer 1s, rollups, and early networks on Bitcoin, such as Mastercoin. That begs the question, what are they? How do they work? And how are they different from smart contract rollups? That is what we'll cover. Smart contract rollups are a type of blockchain that publish their entire blocks to a settlement layer, like Ethereum. The settlement layer’s job is to order the blocks, check that their data is available, and verify whether the transactions are correct. Using Ethereum as an example, in the modular stack the smart contract rollup is responsible for execution. It offloads the work of consensus, data availability, and settlement to Ethereum. As their name implies, smart contract rollups rely on a set of smart contracts on a settlement layer, like Ethe

An introduction to sovereign rollups | Celestia Loading... Modular blockchains for Intermediates The Future of Scalable, Efficient Systems Modular blockchains enhance scalability and efficiency by dividing tasks among specialized layers, unlike monolithic chains that handle everything. This approach promises better performance for a large number of users. Summary 1 . Sovereign rollups publish transactions to another blockchain for ordering and data availability, leaving its nodes to determine the correct chain. 2 . The main difference between a smart contract rollup and sovereign rollup is tha

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