What would a rollup-centric ethereum roadmap look like? Last week the Optimism team announced the launch of the first stage of their testnet, and the roadmap to mainnet. They are not the only ones; Fuel is moving toward a testnet and Arbitrum has one. In the land of ZK rollups, Loopring, Zksync and the Starkware-tech-based Deversifi are already live and have users on mainnet. With OMG network’s mainnet beta, plasma is moving forward too. Meanwhile, gas prices on eth1 are climbing to new hig...| Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians
eth1+eth2 client relationship Since Vitalik proposed an Alternative proposal for early eth1 <-> eth2 merge in Dec 2019, there has been an active conversation about what this merger might look like from a software perspective and an eagerness to begin prototyping. The vision is a hybrid in which core consensus work is managed by an eth2-client and state/block-production is managed by an eth1-engine – together forming an eth1+eth2 client. This document aims to make more explicit the separatio...| Ethereum Research