ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Jesse Pollak, head of the Base protocol, recently stated in a conference call with Ethereum founders and developers that based rollups are "a flexible and powerful tool that will allow us to use them for Base, bringing it closer to Ethereum and increasing the security guarantees it provides."Ben Jones, a director at the Optimism Foundation, added that based rollups will improve collaboration between the Ethereum base layer and L2.Ethereum L2 networks (such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base) have charged hefty fees by deploying high-speed, centralized sorters (i.e., the order of transaction processing and addition to blockchain blocks), but this comes at the cost of unification.Based rollups, proposed by Ethereum core developer Justin Drake in March 2023, return this process to the base layer, improving the decentralization of the network, as the block building process will be executed by all Ethereum validators rather than a single centralized sorter.At the same time, native rollups will enhance the way transactions are executed on the base layer, making the network more composable.However, these L2s will forfeit a significant portion of their revenue gained through maximum extractable value. Data from Dune Analytics shows that Arbitrum, which supports the transition to based rollups, has generated $210 million in revenue from its centralized sorter, while Base's revenue stands at $96.2 million.It is worth noting that based rollups or native rollups may bring more revenue to Ethereum's base layer and positively impact the price of ETH. However, the decentralized sorting of the Ethereum base layer means that transactions will be confirmed within 12 seconds, rather than the approximately 1 second typical of many Ethereum L2s. Several Ethereum L2 leaders also support the deployment of "FABRIC," an infrastructure that supports based rollups.Daniel Wang, CEO of Ethereum L2 Taiko, stated that the protocol is willing to adopt the FABRIC standard to "address" Ethereum's interoperability issues, saying, "We have been waiting for the FABRIC standard so that we can work together and provide a complete solution."

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post stating that Ethereum's goals remain the same as on day one: to build a global, censorship-resistant, permissionless blockchain. After ten years of effort, combining technical and social attributes, Ethereum has embodied another important quality: it provides useful services to people and is capable of achieving this on a large scale.We need to continue building Ethereum's technical and social attributes, as well as its practical utility. I want to focus on a specific impact that is very important for Ethereum users in the short and medium term: Ethereum's scaling strategy.Today, L2 faces two main challenges: scale and heterogeneity challenges. One possible shortcut to scaling is to abandon L2 and complete all operations through L1, significantly increasing the gas limit (which can be achieved through multiple shards or on a single shard). However, this approach would overly compromise many advantages of Ethereum's current social structure, which is particularly effective at simultaneously realizing different forms of research, development, and ecosystem-building culture. Therefore, we should stick to the original path and continue to primarily scale through L2, but ensure that L2 truly fulfills its commitments.Native Rollups are still an early-stage idea. A lot of positive thinking is still needed, especially regarding how to maximize the flexibility of native Rollup precompiles.Now is the time to double down. There are still many areas that require active thinking and brainstorming. The future of Ethereum depends on the active participation of each and every one of us.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on the X platform that part of L2 scaling is Ethereum increasing its blob capacity, and another part is Rollups becoming more data-efficient. It's great to see Starknet rise to the challenge, and I hope to see more EVM Rollups improve data efficiency.Previously, Starknet announced the launch of the solution Starknet v0.13.3, aimed at meeting the steadily growing demand for processing Ethereum blobs.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on social media: "In 2015, we didn't know about the existence of Rollups and Plasma. Data availability sampling had not yet been invented. We didn't know when SNARKs would be feasible. Basically, everything we knew about how to scale in a decentralized way was downstream research from 2015 to 2020."

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on social media that starting next year, he plans to only publicly mention (in blogs, speeches, etc.) L2 projects that are at stage 1+, and may give a brief grace period to some genuinely interesting new projects.Vitalik said: "Whether I have invested or not, or whether you are my friend, the project must reach stage 1, otherwise it will not be considered. Multiple ZK-rollup teams have told me they expect to reach stage 1 by the end of the year. I am very excited about this.Of course, we should not easily abandon training rounds until we have real confidence in the security of the proof system; doing so would be irresponsible. But stage 1 (75% of the council needs to cover the proof system, and 26%+ of the council members must come from outside the rollup team) is a very reasonable moderate milestone. The multi-signature wallet I am part of has not experienced a single activity failure in years, let alone a 26% failure rate. The era of rollups as glorified multi-signature wallets is coming to an end. The era of crypto trust is about to arrive."

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy Research stated in a report that the vast majority of Bitcoin rollups will be unsustainable. Due to transaction fees, Bitcoin rollups require millions of dollars annually to maintain.Galaxy wrote, "Each individual data publication transaction can occupy up to 400KB (0.4MB) of block space, effectively taking up 10% of an entire block." With multiple rollups expected, data is anticipated to be published every 6 to 8 blocks, which could quickly push the base layer fees to new highs and make small transactions too expensive. Given the competition for block space, only rollups that can generate the most fee revenue and pay block fees will be able to sustain operations.Galaxy estimates that in a low-fee environment, when the average transaction cost is 10 sat/VB, rollups will incur $460,000 in monthly fees to maintain Bitcoin's security. In a high-fee environment of 50 sat/VB, when Ordinals or tokens minted through Runes or the BRC-20 standard are frequently active, monthly costs could reach $2.3 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to News.bitcoin, Web3 developer Quicknode's Vice President of Products Josh Neuroth stated that ZK Rollups provide tangible benefits in transaction throughput and data confidentiality, making these L2 solutions more of a foundational technology rather than a fleeting trend. Furthermore, as the technology behind these L2 solutions matures, more projects are adopting them, and the Web3 space may witness lasting improvements in blockchain performance and user experience.Meanwhile, Neuroth expressed his agreement with Bitcoin extremist David Sorey's view that ZK Rollups are a missing piece in the Bitcoin network's scalability and privacy. He explained that ZK Rollups ultimately "help Bitcoin overcome its current limitations and compete with other blockchain networks that offer advanced features."

ChainCatcher news, Everclear (formerly known as Connext Network) is now integrated with the OKX Web3 wallet. Users can perform cross-chain transactions, exchanges, provide liquidity, and more through the OKX Web3 wallet on Everclear. Everclear is a communication protocol that supports fast, trustless communication between different blockchain networks and Rollups, enabling developers to build cross-chain applications on top of it, such as asset cross-chain bridges, cross-chain DeFi protocols, and more.It is reported that the OKX Web3 wallet is an industry-leading one-stop Web3 gateway, now supporting over 95 public chains, with a unified experience across app, extension, and web. It covers five major areas: wallets, DEX, DeFi, NFT markets, and DApp exploration, and has launched a trading market for Bitcoin inscriptions and runes, among others.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the liquid staking derivatives (LSD) project Puffer Finance, built on the Ethereum restaking protocol Eigenlayer, recently announced a collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation to jointly develop Base Rollups. Base Rollups alleviate the burden on layer one blockchains by processing transactions off-chain. Puffer Finance's LSD technology allows Ethereum validators to reduce the required capital from 32 ETH to 1 ETH, while simultaneously earning yields in other DeFi protocols through liquid restaking tokens (nLRT).Currently, Puffer Finance's total locked value has exceeded $1.2 billion, having raised a total of $23.5 million in venture capital funding.Previously, the project completed a $18 million Series A funding round to launch the mainnet.

ChainCatcher news, OP Labs developer vex released the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) version of the OP Stack Rollup state transition component kona yesterday.Optimism co-founder Mark Tyneway commented on this, saying: "The OP Stack can be used for ZK Rollups faster than you might think."