Ethereum’s rollups are 'gold standard’ but Plasma needs a revisit: Buterin
Vitalik Buterin called the early Ethereum scaling solution Plasma “underrated” and a “significant security upgrade” for chains that would otherwise be validiums. Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals and Merkle roots — to an off-chain environment. It was superseded by optimistic and zero-knowledge (ZK)- rollups as the two solutions offered cheaper client-side data storage costs and security properties that “cannot be matched,” Buterin explained in a Nov. 14 X (Twitter) post. Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasmahttps://t.co/QgyzXAl0wv — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) November 14, 2023 Buterin said rollups remain the “gold standard ,” but Plasma is an “underrated design space” that shouldn’t be forgotten. “Plasma can be a sign...