🏴The 3Base Rollup Stack

Rollups – An Overview

Rollups are the answer to scaling blockchain throughput and minimizing transaction fees. Layer 1 chains like Ethereum have had trouble with achieving increased transaction rates. Simply put, Ethereum is the largest dApp ecosystem out there. It processes thousands of transactions daily, but its limited throughput causes network congestion, leading to high gas fees.

Layer 2 scaling solutions emerged to tackle these woes, taking transactions off the main chain, validating them off-chain, bundling them into compressed packages, and sending them to layer 1, or Ethereum, for finality. This breakthrough presented a new avenue for blockchain technology, allowing projects and users to harness the scalability and efficiency provided by layer 2 networks while still relying on the security of layer 1 blockchains.

The same technologies are integrated by layer 3 solutions that offer scalability and efficiency beyond what layer 2s can. Layer 3 RaaS platforms implement optimistic and ZK-rollups -- the two kinds of rollups.