Fuel Labs unveils ‘roll-up OS’ strategy ahead of mainnet launch in the third quarter of 2024
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Fuel Labs, developer of the optimistic rollup project Fuel V1, today announced that it has evolved the project into a “Rollup OS” ahead of mainnet launch in Q3 2024. The transition to an “operating system” aims to address particularly important limitations. According to the statement, in Ethereum’s current roll-up architecture.
With its mainnet launch later this year, Fuel will introduce a special-purpose virtual machine designed to improve the performance of Ethereum Rollup (developed using the platform) by supporting parallel transaction execution, allowing multiple transactions to be processed simultaneously. no see. In this way, it competes with projects like Monad and Sei that provide EVM parallelization. However, these competitors are alternative layer 1 networks.
The project also uses state minimization techniques to prevent state inflation. This means an ever-growing accumulation of data that must be fully stored and managed by the blockchain’s nodes to ensure proper chain validation and state transitions. These state minimization techniques also help improve rollup performance.
These products, Fuel claims, allow Fuel-based rollups to scale. This means that it can inherit Ethereum-level security while maintaining the lowest node operation overhead.
“As rollups matured, it became clear that an operating environment optimized for our unique needs was a non-negotiable next step. Fuel is evolution. ‘Rollup OS’ solves a critical bottleneck and future-proofs both Rollup technology and the Ethereum ecosystem,” said Nick Dodson, CEO and co-founder of Fuel Labs.
Modularity of the Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem
The Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem is increasingly moving toward modularity, allowing rollups and other chains to leverage separate platforms for individual tasks such as data availability, consensus, and execution.
First launched as a layer 2 optimistic rollup on Ethereum in 2020, Fuel has evolved into a more modular approach that serves as an execution layer for various blockchain configurations, such as rollups.
Fuel Network provides a modular execution layer (blockchain focused on transaction processing) that provides parallel transactions, achieved through FuelVM, an alternative to the Ethereum virtual machine.
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