Ethereum

Hot take: Only EVM-equivalent rollups and systems built on them like app-specific chains are actually canon to Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap scaling strategy.

Making my case in an upcoming article.

People may have the impression that this claim is made out of social allegiance, but there are clearly strong technical arguments for it, specifically guaranteeing lock-step synchronization of VM upgrades across rollups and Ethereum that truly realize USC

I'm actually thinking the opposite. The reason they're so similar now is because many apps deploy across 5+ chains. With full chain abstraction every app only needs to deploy once and be usable everywhere, so they can pick the chain with the features they desire and be connected to the rest of the ecosystem. 

Posting state roots to L1 and using blobs will be paramount though as that ensures they can be composable with all the other chains in a secure way without additional trust assumptions.

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I still need to go deeper into chain abstraction before I a give an educated opinion about that. I'm more so hoping that the cross-chain opcodes that Taiko and Scroll are working on give a more native cross chain interaction experience.

But like I said, I still need to spend some time going through chain abstraction to see if I need to change how I'm thinking about things