Making Sense of Based Rollups on Bankless

Rollups depend on Ethereum for security and decentralization , while Ethereum depends on rollups to expand the economic activity of the ecosystem .

However, L1 settlement alone is an incomplete picture of what the rollup-centric roadmap aims to accomplish. Ethereum also serves as an affordable settlement and DA layer for rollups. I see rollups (and their corresponding rollup platform à la Optimism Superchain and Arbitrum Orbit) as independent fiefdoms. Each platform will compete to give users ... See more