Eclipse: The First SVM L2 Scaling Ethereum with Solana’s Speed
Ethereum scaling solutions have taken various forms — rollups, sidechains, and app-specific blockchains, each attempting to balance security, speed, and cost-efficiency.
But many of these solutions come with trade-offs: rollups can be expensive to host, app chains struggle with fragmentation, and execution environments vary widely in performance.
Finding a solution that balances speed, security, and cost-efficiency has remained a challenge.
Eclipse offers a new approach by integrating the best components of modular blockchain architecture — combining Solana’s execution, Ethereum’s security, and Celestia’s data availability.
Rather than choosing between execution, speed and ecosystem compatibility, Eclipse integrates the best of all three. As a Layer 2, Eclipse aims to offer a scalable and cost-effective alternative to monolithic Layer 1s and fragmented app rollups, addressing common issues like high fees, limited throughput, and interoperability challenges.
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Why SVM?
Performance
The SVM is built for parallel processing from the ground up, unlike Ethereum’s single-threaded EVM. This parallelism enables Eclipse to process transactions faster, offering a significant performance advantage.
Community and Developer Tools
The SVM benefits from a robust and growing developer community, which contributes to a wide range of developer tooling. As the first SVM-based Layer 2, Eclipse connects Solana developers to Ethereum’s user base, creating new opportunities for cross-ecosystem applications.
Provability
The SVM is register-based, making it easier to prove transactions and computations compared to the EVM. While other virtual machines, such as Cairo, also optimize for provability, the SVM balances performance and verifiability.
Battle-Tested, Production-Ready
The SVM has been battle-tested in a high-performance environment, handling millions of transactions daily on Solana. It’s a production-ready execution engine that’s been proven to scale efficiently, making it an attractive choice.
For end users, these technical advancements translate into tangible benefits:
Benefits of Eclipse (user perspective)
Fast and Cheap Transactions
Eclipse’s parallel processing ensures faster transactions and lower fees, even during periods of high demand.
Fee Stability
Congestion caused by mass NFT minting or similar events doesn’t affect the rest of the chain, guaranteeing a smoother experience for all users.
Reduced Attack Surface
With the SVM’s advanced security features, Eclipse has a reduced attack surface, making it significantly harder for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities like reentrancy attacks.
Shared Security with Ethereum
A key aspect of Eclipse’s architecture is its Ethereum settlement. By anchoring its validating bridge on Ethereum, Eclipse inherits Ethereum-grade security and censorship resistance. If an L2 sequencer is censored, users can still force include their transactions via Ethereum.
Eclipse Summarized
Eclipse is bringing Solana to Ethereum — leveraging the SVM to deliver unmatched performance and modularity while scaling Ethereum.
- Settlement: Anchored to Ethereum for security, using ETH as gas
- Execution: Powered by the SVM for unparalleled speed
- Data Availability: Backed by Celestia for scalability
- Proving: Utilizes RISC Zero for ZK fraud proofs
Eclipse’s adoption metrics highlight its traction
- Over 7 billion transactions
- TVL: $176M+
- Wallets created: 760K+
Eclipse represents an important step toward modular, high-performance blockchains. By integrating proven technologies in execution, security, and data availability, it aims to provide a scalable and developer-friendly solution within Ethereum’s broader ecosystem.
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