Decoding Puffer Unifi: Based Rollup will reconstruct the future order of Ethereum L2

With the rapid expansion of the Ethereum Rollup ecosystem, problems such as liquidity fragmentation and inefficient cross-chain interactions have become increasingly prominent. Based Rollup, which aims to return transaction ordering rights to the Ethereum main network and solve the "island effect" of Rollup, has been widely regarded In order to promote the Ethereum ecosystem from "fragmented competition" to a new path of "collaboration and win-win".

In this context, as a pioneer in the field of Based Rollup, Puffer UniFi launched by Puffer provides developers with decentralized and highly compatible Based Rollup by integrating the re-pledge node service (LRT) and the pre-confirmation service (UniFi AVS). solution.

As early as November 7, 2024, Puffer UniFi officially launched the UniFi internal testing service for developers, and will also launch the second phase of the UniFi test network public version in the near future. This also marks that the Ethereum ecosystem is gradually changing from fragmentation to Towards interconnection and a new stage of more coordinated development.

Based Rollup: Ethereum’s self-correcting technological leap

L2BEAT data shows that there are currently more than 50 Ethereum Rollup L2s, and it has become one of the most prosperous Ethereum tracks. However, with the expansion of the number of L2s, there are problems caused by independent sequencers and cross-chain delays between chains. The problem of liquidity fragmentation is becoming increasingly serious.

For example, seamless interaction of funds and contracts cannot be achieved between different Rollups. Developers must bet on one or more L2s to acquire customers, and users frequently dynamically transfer assets between multiple L2s. This process not only increases user experience and The complexity of the development process greatly limits the efficiency of funds and severely restricts the overall development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

In the final analysis, the core factor of this separation between L2 is that each L2 has its own centralized sequencer. Therefore, Based Rollup characterized by "L1-Sequenced" has become a brand-new solution:

The power of transaction sorting is returned to the Ethereum main network. All Rollup application chains share this set of decentralized sequencer infrastructure, and all transactions are sorted and packaged through the Ethereum main network.

Therefore, the core advantage of Based Rollup is that it is completely decentralized and inherits the activity of the Ethereum main network - this means that funds can be withdrawn directly from Rollup. At the same time, because they are all sorted through the main network, smart contracts on different Rollups It can interact directly and seamlessly, and because it is all sorted through the main network, it fundamentally eliminates the island effect of funds and user groups.

From this perspective, Based Rollup is also an important step in tearing down the L2 wall of Ethereum. It is also expected to restore the interoperability and composability between L2 and L2, L2 and L1. Users will experience seamless interaction like a single chain. , developers can build a highly interoperable application ecosystem, and the capital efficiency and network effects of Ethereum can also be maximized.

As an "Ethereum decentralized infrastructure provider", Puffer has also launched its own Based Rollup development stack based on UniFi AVS - on the one hand, it aggregates and re-pledges node resources through Puffer LRT, lowers the threshold for node participation, and provides decentralized sorting. Server cluster, on the other hand, UniFi AVS can also achieve millisecond-level transaction confirmation latency with TEE hardware acceleration.

In particular, Puffer uses its TEE-Multiprover technology to achieve atomic composability with the Ethereum main network - with low latency at the millisecond level, all cross-L2-L1 operations can run through one transaction. within, ensuring either total success or total failure.

For example, users can call multiple contracts on Rollup in the same transaction to complete complex cross-chain financial operations while avoiding the uncertainty of intermediate states. This unlocks use cases such as efficient arbitrage, flash loan refinancing, and instant liquidation. , bringing direct economic benefits to developers and users.

The ecological reconstruction value of Puffer UniFi

From a product perspective, re-staking is just the starting point for Puffer. Puffer's ultimate mission is to break the fragmentation of the Ethereum ecosystem through the Based Rollup architecture, and Puffer LRT and UniFi AVS provide UniFi with complete tools and technical support respectively - L1 verification/sorting/re-staking nodes, pre-confirmation mechanism, etc.

On this basis, Puffer deeply integrates Puffer LRT and UniFi AVS into the Based Rollup development stack, empowering developers to quickly build based rollup application chains with strong interoperability and high decentralization characteristics. This not only provides solutions to current problems There is an effective path to rollup L2 bottlenecks, and it also opens up a new collaboration and growth model for developers and project parties.

First of all, the application chain architecture based on Puffer UniFi abandons the reliance on traditional centralized sorters, greatly reducing developers’ operational burden and technical costs:

● Simplify on-chain management: There is no need to maintain complex sequencer infrastructure, and developers can focus more on application development itself;

● Lower entry barriers: Start-up projects and small and medium-sized teams can quickly join the ecosystem and build their own application chains, thereby further stimulating the innovative vitality of the Ethereum ecosystem;

Secondly, Puffer UniFi allows developers to directly capture part of the value generated by transaction fees (Congestion Fees generated by the transaction in the picture above) after deploying their own application chains, thus building a new incentive mechanism for the ecosystem.

After all, these earnings are a private land, which can be used to subsidize users and provide liquidity incentives, or as a source of income for the project itself to further support marketing, traffic diversion and product development within the ecosystem. This economic autonomy enables the project side to be more Flexibly balancing ecological expansion and its own profit goals forms a virtuous cycle.

In this ecosystem, there is no longer a zero-sum competition between Rollups, but a win-win situation through shared resources, which means that latecomers can also use the existing mature user groups to quickly open up the promotion situation at a low cost; at the same time, this This kind of economic autonomy is also expected to inspire each project party/developer to give full play to their subjective initiative, form a spontaneous ecosystem based on UniFi to build applications, and achieve large-scale scenario implementation and adoption breakthroughs.

Conclusion

Based Rollup is a dynamic rebalancing of Ethereum in the triangle of scalability, security and decentralization.

Therefore, the endgame of Rollup is not an "isolated island universe" with infinite forks, but with the Ethereum mainnet as the anchor of trust and achieving "unity in diversity" through the Based Rollup architecture.

As an engineering practice of this vision, Puffer UniFi is providing developers, users and the entire Ethereum ecosystem with a standardized tool set that takes into account efficiency, security and collaboration. In the future, with the addition of more application chains, a seamless The Web3 super ecosystem with interconnection and free flow of value may arrive at an accelerated pace.