Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a tweet on Friday claims the present-day rollups are not optimized to reduce fixed gas fees and costs per transaction. Despite some obvious solutions to reduce Ethereum gas fees and transaction speed, these are early times and rollups require more improvement in terms of fixed costs and per transaction costs.
The drawbacks of Ethereum currently are high gas fees and slow transaction speed, the Merge looks to solve these issues by increasing transaction speed, improving efficiency, and minimizing transaction costs. In fact, Ethereum will take a “rollup-centric roadmap” to improve the network’s scalability.
Vitalik Buterin Finds Ethereum Rollups Not Fully Optimized
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a tweet agrees rollups available today are not fully optimized and needs improvement in both fixed costs and per-transaction costs.
“Still a lot of room to improve both fixed costs and per-transaction costs. Very much early days in terms of how many optimizations that are easy to find theoretically haven’t yet actually been deployed.”
Rollups are scalability solutions that cut blockchain transaction costs by moving computation and data storage off-chain. Thus, reducing costs and increasing transaction speed. Some of the best Ethereum rollups are Optimism, Arbitrum, and zkSync. However, the fixed costs and per-transaction costs are still higher.
