Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork reduced layer 2 rollup costs, but the ecosystem needs infrastructure to integrate them. Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail, discusses the importance of neutral third-party players in streamlining the user experience.
Although Ethereum has made progress in scaling layer 2 rollups, infrastructure consolidation is needed. Arjun highlights the importance of neutral third-party players in building an independent roll-up infrastructure to unify the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem.
Arjun focuses on building the infrastructure that delivers leading rollup protocols such as StarkWare, zkSync, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Avail aims to be a rollup-agnostic platform by implementing techniques such as data sampling to efficiently validate rollups.
Currently, the Ethereum user experience involves switching between various rollups, creating a fragmented experience. Avail aims to solve this problem by building a unified rollup ecosystem by bringing together proofs created by independent rollups.
Avail Nexus aims to promote integration standards between rollups, similar to Polygon’s Aggregation layer. The Ethereum ecosystem is considering who will build the infrastructure to integrate rollups, emphasizing the need for a mindset shift toward building L2 distributed applications.
The future of the Ethereum rollup ecosystem depends on building the infrastructure to integrate rollups. Neutral third-party players like Avail are critical to streamlining the user experience and creating a cohesive ecosystem for decentralized applications.