Blaine
@blainemalone
While everyone on X is complaining about L2 fragmentation, cracked engineers are delivering solutions. Interoperability is coming to Ethereum in 2025. The @optimism Interoperable Superchain gives us: ✅ Unified wallet balances ✅ Low-latency cross-chain transfers ✅ No network switching ✅ & opens up a whole new design space for exciting apps This diagram shows how ERC20 tokens are seamlessly bridged between OP Stack chains.
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Trigs
@trigs
Who/what are these relayers?
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zain
@zain
Anyone is free to run a relayer! I believe OP Labs and LayerZero thus far are confirmed to run a relayer https://docs.optimism.io/stack/interop/tools/devnet#superchain-interop-transaction-relayer
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Trigs
@trigs
So there's no network incentives for relaying? Just trusting that someone will volunteer to keep relayers going at their expense? Or is there at least a gas fee accommodation included in the tx so the someone is at least paying for the relaying?
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zain
@zain
Its an open market - someone could run a public goods relayer at cost or someone could build a fast relayer and take an additional fee on source and provide the fastest relay possible
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Trigs
@trigs
I'm just coming from the perspective of Cosmos. They solved interop ages ago with IBC, but the fatal flaw I saw (working at a validator for years) was that relaying was inherently free to the user (yay!) and there was no established funding mechanism for incentivizing relayers (ohno!) All these complicated offchain mechanisms started popping up for incentivizing relayers, but it often ended up just being this classic xkcd meme.
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