One of the most limited blockchain resources is blockspace. From Bitcoin’s Blocksize Wars to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, a common denominator seems to have emerged in the form of rollups. Advancements in zero knowledge proofs have enabled trustless bridges, which are a cornerstone to onboarding liquidity to any blockchain. Furthermore, Celestia’s modular approach to blockchain architecture and their recent commitment to gigabyte blocks of data availability marked the beginning of commoditization for rollups. Abundance is the first rollup-as-a-service platform that is able to scale to 1 gigagas/second throughput, finally bringing off-chain applications, on-chain.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Gelato’s pivot to rollup-as-a-service platform
• Sovereign rollups
• Enshrined bridges and settlement proofs
• Abundance and 1 Gigagas/second rollups
• Modularity
• Security assumptions
• Sequencer (de)centralisation
• Social consensus
• Celestia’s DA layer bandwidth
• Ethereum native rollups
• Decentralisation and censorship-resistance

Episode links:

• Hilmar Orth on X
• Gelato Network on X
• Abundance on X

Sponsors:

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This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.