A few weeks ago we announced Specular—an optimistic rollup with a novel EVM-native design—and were delighted to see the excitement and discussion stimulated by our Twitter thread around how best to design such systems. In this post, we’d like to clarify what we think are some of the key advantages of the EVM-native approach over other optimistic rollup approaches, including ongoing work by Optimism and Arbitrum pursuing EVM-equivalence through a fraud proof system defined over a lower-level V...

A few weeks ago we announced Specular—an optimistic rollup with a novel EVM-native design—and were delighted to see the excitement and discussion stimulated by our Twitter thread around how best to design such systems. In this post, we’d like to clarify what we think are some of the key advantages of the EVM-native approach over other optimistic rollup approaches, including ongoing work by Optimism and Arbitrum pursuing EVM-equivalence through a fraud proof system defined over a lower-level V...