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Despite fierce debate, Ethereum's scalability roadmap still hinges on rollups. While rollups have undoubtedly paved the way for Ethereum’s scaling success, their lack of synchronicity with the main chain creates issues.
Rollups must maintain specialized proof mechanisms, adding significant complexity and overhead for each rollup team. They rely heavily on security councils or governance votes to stay current with Ethereum’s upgrades, causing lags and disconnect. Further, each rollup’s varied security assumptions and degrees of centralization fragment the ecosystem and slow interoperability. Meanwhile, each new Ethereum hard fork demands rollup teams to manually update to stay compatible, intensifying governance burdens and introducing fresh risks.
Against this backdrop and the battle over Ethereum’s scaling vision, many are wondering if there’s a simpler path forward — one where these L2s can remain fully synced with Ethereum without needing so much hands-on maintenance.
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