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The Three Paths for Smart Contract Scalability

David Barreto2 Comments

tl;dr;

  • A smart contract blockchain can scale with hardware, with an optimistic rollup or a zk-rollup
  • Solana’s hardware scaling solution suffers from lack of decentralization and sync issues
  • Optimistic rollups (Optimism) rely on off-chain verifiers and has a 6 days finality on L1
  • zk-rollups (StarkNet) submits and verifies validity proofs on-chain increasing security but also data usage of L1
  • Optimistic rollups are cheaper but zk-rollups are more secure
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