Crypto data aggregator Messari believes that roll-ups will shell out layer-ane solutions in the race to scale Ethereum.

Although Eth2's beacon concatenation genesis successfully took place on December. i, analysts predict the upgrades spanning the Ethereum 2.0 overhaul will not be completed until 2022. As such, Messari recently asserted the wait for Eth2's completion "leaves an opportunity for other low-fee, low-latency competitors to eat into Ethereum'south monopoly."

"Those serpent-bitten by rising fees will inevitably explore alternative platforms with better transaction throughput and lower fees if they oasis't already."

Despite praising efforts from Virtually, Cosmos and Solana to build interoperable bridges with Ethereum as well as moves to develop scalable chains uniform with Ethereum's virtual machine from Polkadot and Avalanche, Messari predicts the second-layer solution of roll-ups will crush out layer-one networks every bit the crypto community'southward interim scaling solution of choice.

Messari describes roll-ups every bit "new blockchains that procedure transactions independently of Ethereum" earlier submitting the transactions to the master chain in batches. Unlike layer-one solutions, Messari claims that roll-ups can fulfill computational processes "without bogging down the underlying network with excess data and computing requests."

Messari likewise asserts that Ethereum'due south robust community will deter developers from wandering elsewhere, tweeting:

"While Ethereum competitors volition offer similar technical advantages, Ethereum's strong community will proceed to serve as its biggest moat."

Despite roll-ups still being several months abroad from being "production-ready," Messari notes that "a burgeoning ecosystem" has already formed around diverse roll-upward projects, including protocol development from Optimism, Offchain Labs and Matter Labs, and plans for early on implementations by Synthetix and Uniswap.

If combined with sharding and proof-of-stake consensus, Messari predicts that roll-ups could allow the Ethereum network to process upwardly to 100,000 transactions per second, an increment in transactional throughput of more than 10,000 times:

"If rollups pan out, Ethereum should be able to maintain its virtual monopoly on DeFi applications while Eth2 remains in its incubation stage."