“Rollups get cheaper with more users”. You’ve probably read a phrase like this about how rollups are fundamentally different from other blockchains because they flip the traditional blockchain cost structure on its
Optimism just announced the next chapter in their pursuit towards an EVM equivalent optimistic rollup. The announcement detailed plans for governance, a token, and retroactive public goods funding. The core goal of Ethereum
Most blockchains don’t incentivize storage. They incentivize validators to
participate honestly in consensus and assume that once non-consensus nodes have
verified newly added blocks, they will partially or fully store those blocks.
Scalability has been and will continue to be one of the most difficult
challenges, particularly for blockchains that act as shared environments for
applications. In this model, applications are all competing for resources
Blockchains typically have a leader that is responsible for both building and
proposing blocks during their designated leader slot. These leaders have full
control over which transactions to include in the block, and