A Better Mental Model for Rollups, Plasma, and Validating Bridges by Patrick McCorry
Channel: Ethereum Foundation
Date: 2022-10-12

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Sidechains, Plasma, Rollups, Valdiums, AnyTrust, PoS chains, Crypto Exchanges, all have one thing in common: the bridge. This talk provides an overview on the trust assumptions, threat model, security goals and solutions associated with the humble bridge smart contract. As we will see, rollups emerged because of the scalability bottlenecks faced by Ethereum, but the product-market fit is solving the operational security issues for bridging funds from Ethereum to an off-chain system.

Speaker(s): Patrick McCorry
Skill level: Beginner
Track: Layer 2s
Keywords: rollups,bridges,layer-2

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