Why Based Rollup & Not ZK or Optimistic? Upcoming "Preconfirmations

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Blockchain scaling has two dominant approaches: ZK-Rollups (mathematically secure but complex) and Optimistic Rollups (simple but slow with 7-day withdrawal delays).  But there’s a third way—Based Rollups—and it’s about to change the game.  What’s a Based Rollup? No centralized sequencers – It uses Ethereum’s own validators for decentralization  Native preconfirmations – Near-instant finality (no waiting for fraud proofs or ZK proofs)  Simpler & more secure – Inherits Ethereum’s full security without extra trust assumptions  Why It Matters ✅ Faster than Optimistic (No 7-day wait) ✅ Simpler than ZK (No complex proof generation) ✅ More decentralized (No reliance on external sequencers)  The Game-Changer? Preconfirmations Based Rollups enable instant preconfirmations—giving users real-time guarantees their transactions will finalize, without waiting for Ethereum’s slower blocks.  👉 Think of it like a "verified pending" status—your swap or NFT mint is locked in immediately, even before full finality.  Who’s Using This? Projects like Ethereum’s EigenLayer and Espresso are pioneering Based Rollups to bring instant, secure transactions without compromising decentralization.  The Bottom Line Based Rollups might just be the perfect middle ground—combining the speed users want with the security Ethereum provides.  Is this the future of scaling? 🚀 Let’s discuss in the comments!  #Ethereum #Rollups #DeFi #Blockchain #Crypto

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00:00yeah hi everyone my name is Ravi I'm the co-founder CEO of Zeef and today on web3 voice

00:09we have very exciting guest Nikki who is the head of DeFi at Tyco Tyco as you all know is

00:15a very exciting startup in the modular ecosystem a base roll-up serving the ethereum ecosystem a

00:23very exciting very innovative roll-up and we are very excited at Zeef to partner with Tyco so hi

00:29Nikki hi guys how are you awesome meeting you and awesome to be here yeah so Nikki before we

00:37get on to learn more about Tyco and what you are doing at Tyco I would love to know your journey

00:43so far in web3 a bit about yourself and your journey so far I mean my actual journey in web3 started like

00:51long time ago so initially I was really excited about ICOs general speaking like ICO space and

00:59this basically paved my entry into web3 so I started working in the web3 space in 2017 and started my

01:07career actually my journey at a centralized exchange later like worked for a custody solution provider

01:12two and then for other foundations such as near neon and talos prior joining Tyco and uh I mean yeah

01:20so far really enjoy it of course the space can be a bit too hectic unorganized and a little bit like

01:27crazy but I guess like that's the that's kind of like you know the innovation here and everything

01:35keeps uh keeps us all up at night and we're working to making this space much more legit and safer for

01:43everyone else right got it I think that's that's uh super exciting so uh coming to Tyco um so as we

01:52have seen you know uh the modular ecosystem have grown very rapidly in last three four years

01:57we have seen optimistic rollups we have seen zk rollups so um would love to learn more a bit about

02:05you know what Tyco is and and how it plays a significant role in the Ethereum ecosystem

02:10sure I will gladly provide the information there so basically like um whoever knows Tyco like a lot of

02:17people know that we are the first base roll up on Ethereum of course not everyone knows the difference

02:24between different types of rollups like you mentioned for example optimistic rollups and

02:28stuff like that so I can give you a little bit of an overview and a lot of the times like when I

02:33actually start talking about Tyco one of the questions I get like there are so many rollups why

02:38do we need an additional one which is a fair question to ask as well so I will just give you a

02:43little bit of a round down of what a base rollup is and why is it really it's highly imperative for us

02:50and why we do believe in this right so actually a rollup is based or a one sequenced when it's

02:57sequencing is actually driven by the base of one so what does this mean right so based uh sequencing

03:04enjoys actually the same liveness guarantees as a layer one which is Ethereum in our case

03:08and then like a base sequencing actually inherits the decentralization of the layer one and naturally

03:14reuses L1 searcher builder proposal infrastructure also base sequencing is very simple and um what

03:22is really important also for us it's like um when it comes to the economic alignment with Ethereum like

03:29MEV originating from base rollups naturally flows to this base a lot so these are like key for example

03:36features and one thing that I would like to emphasize like especially in the space where we have like

03:41different rollups and as you may know majority of the rollups rely on the centralized sequencer

03:48this was a no-go for us from the onset of our architecture we wanted to actually this is why we

03:54went down this route because we wanted to ensure that our sequencer is decentralized and as I mentioned

04:01base sequencing inherits the decentralization of layer one so as a matter of fact the sequencer

04:07our sequencer is centralized so that's basically like how the base rollups uh operate and work of

04:14course compared to some other rollups within the space the base rollups can be a bit slower a bit

04:20more expensive because we do inherit um a lot actually from uh Ethereum but uh also like uh one thing that

04:32i would like to mention that's coming up in our technical roadmap it's the pre-confirmations um

04:38because like pre-confirmation will go live like i believe uh the end of q1 uh sometime in q2

04:47on mainnet and it basically like they basically optimize the transaction confirmation process to improve

04:54uh uh like user experience so as a matter of fact like um like in the base pre-confirmation model l1

05:03validators provide users with a guarantee of transaction outcomes and uh pre-confirm pre-confirmers

05:09they need to stay collateral and adhere to a slashing mechanism to ensure system real reliability and

05:16uh tyco kind of like established a lot reliable transaction finality by introducing the pre-confirmation

05:23mechanism which creates a more convenient uh operational environment you know for different

05:28dApps like on DeFi that kind of require real-time confirmation so that's a little bit about our

05:35upcoming rollup as well got it no i think that's that's super interesting so as you uh uh explained

05:42about base rollup and and uh uh i had read extensively about how base rollup works and how it differs from

05:49optimistic and zk rollups and and you rightly said i think uh the way it inherits the decentralization

05:55security and it is very tightly coupled with the ethereum the base layer right uh vis-a-vis uh uh the

06:02other stacks and and one thing that you rightly mention is about the centralization of the sequencer

06:07layer which is uh right now very much uh uh true as far as most of the uh other rollup stacks are

06:14concerned and most of the rollups out there they are using centralized sequencer and in fact you know

06:19we uh have launched a project called sero which is a decentralized sequencing network and we have

06:26recently done a alpha testnet launch called uh lotus testnet uh that we are going to do a big

06:34announcement at each january um so we realize there are quite a few gaps there and and that needs to be

06:40fulfilled and at the same time you mentioned that you know in the case of base rollups uh yes uh since

06:46you inherit a lot of decentralization and security from ethereum uh it tends to be a bit more extensive

06:52um uh you know it use the deal layer ethereum also has the deal layer um but then uh there are some

07:01obvious benefits you know uh so how do you see in terms of um competition in the market or adoption in

07:07the market how do you see base rollup vis-a-vis uh you know other stacks how you see developer

07:13adoption coming up especially from a d5 standpoint uh sure i mean like uh you know uh in when we

07:21started we were quite early to this base rollup narrative even though like a lot of folks from the

07:26ethereum foundation or like uh from the community they were pushing this narrative like we've seen for

07:31example the videos or the content from justin drake he was he spoke a lot about base rollups and now

07:37also you can kind of like can find different podcasts which discuss based on native rollups

07:43and essentially we're really we really pride ourselves being like kind of first in this um

07:48like ecosystem driving the base rollup narrative and we do see like actually a lot of other competitors

07:57like or you know the partners within the ecosystem like within the rollup ecosystem going uh for the base

08:05design as well which is actually quite encouraging and um we are i mean like of course from one point

08:11of view they are to a certain degree competitors um but of course like as tyco we are happy to support

08:18and help out there because you know we were like we kind of like you know built this and we had our

08:27own fair share of challenges and stuff like that and also we're still in the phase of learning so i think we

08:33can collaborate and kind of learn together as well but uh also the other thing that i would like to mention

08:39as you correctly pointed out like um yeah like the base rollups because since we inherit everything

08:46pretty much like if you look at from the architectural construct the consensus the settlement uh layer um as

08:53as you mentioned um as well like uh it's all uh ethereum based right so like the data availability layer

09:00as well and as a matter of fact like the base rollups are more a bit more expensive and slower but um with the

09:08introduction of the pre-confirmations that's bound to change uh because the pre-confirmation will allow users to receive

09:17transaction confirmations more quickly kind of like removing the common delays and efficient inefficiencies

09:23in the rollout mechanism so um because like in the rollout mechanism there's always an efficiency

09:29issue with the confirmation process like after especially after users submit transactions to l2

09:35as centralized l2 sequencers like they cannot accurately guarantee when transactions will be confirmed

09:41on l1 users are often also like uncertain about the order and outcome of transactions to a certain

09:48degree so for example like sometimes users can will have to wait a long time for transactions to be

09:54included in l1 and if the transaction order is incorrect or the result is not the best or not the ideal

10:01it can lead to kind of like let's say probably financial losses from the executed uh transactions right

10:09so so as a matter of fact like when it comes to the goal of pre-confirmations is to address a lot of

10:16shortcoming which are experienced within the when it comes and are impacted by the rollup uh inefficiencies

10:24so like pre-confirmations like uh provide users with transaction inclusivity ordering and execution

10:30guarantees for example so it offers users like kind of soft confirms so as well yeah so that's what i would like

10:38to mention got it right no i think uh that's very interesting right so uh um i see that you know

10:47you have achieved quite a few uh uh like you know most of your roadmap uh for 2024 and one of the

10:53interesting item that i saw was on the uh integration with the zk proofs so uh where the uh what is the

11:01current proof system in the uh based all of the tyco and uh and as a zk proof based and and so a bit more

11:09about the proving system uh today that you have yeah yeah i mean like i think um uh like it's called

11:16uh i mean probably you've seen information about riko uh and uh essentially it's tycos multi prover

11:24so i'm not super technical to talk about it but i can give you a little bit of glimpses into that so

11:30like riko is tycos like block prover and it's an integrated environment that basically runs and

11:39benchmarks ckvm targets also support like sp1 risk 0 and sgx and um why we are actually um kind of like

11:49implemented it because the multi-proof approach will believe that it can hedge the risks of blocks

11:54and vulnerabilities in client implementation and proving system and in the end of the day if you

12:00look at it like the ethereum end game usually like assumed zk proving a one box so that's another reason

12:07like uh we worked on this front as well right and tyco is a uh evm equivalent chain right and that

12:16means that anyone who is running their dap on ethereum or any evm compatible chain can easily migrate to

12:22tyco without making anything exactly it's fairly simple to migrate to tyco and x especially because

12:31like uh it's a evm type one so pretty much everything is inherited um from ethereum so um like

12:40like pretty much there are no uh i mean constraints or any issues with the migration because like when

12:48it comes to type one you'll strive to be fully ethereum equivalent so you don't change any part of

12:55the ethereum system to make it like you don't make it different you don't replace hashes state trees or

13:03whatever pre-compels or any in like logics no matter how like peripheral they are got it got it no i

13:13think uh nikki it has been uh uh great to learn a lot about what tyco has been doing and especially

13:19a bit about the base rollups i'm sure uh since you and your team are coming to uh eat denver and also

13:25you know you are participating with us on our rollup day uh our team of roller builders would be very keen to

13:33learn more about base rollups and uh you know would participate and and there would be a lot of

13:38healthy interactions productive sessions and uh we are very excited uh for you to partner with us

13:45so um any any plans that you have any exciting news or updates uh that you have would be coming in or

13:52we can see uh during eat denver or in upcoming events uh this month or next sure sure sure so actually

14:00uh i mean uh if you've seen i think you guys are on what was sent you also the invitation and

14:05informed like we're hosting an event in a during east denver which will be revolving around taiko

14:12takeoff and it's actually our new initiative that will be running it hasn't been officially announced

14:17yet i mean we have already like written a basically an article about it but like the terms the conditions

14:23and stuff like that they weren't really announced so maybe i can just give a little bit of information

14:28here so basically what that would take off is is to actually enable the projects to launch their tokens

14:36natively on taiko so and as a matter of fact we're like basically allocating up to 1 million uh us

14:43dollars in grants or in um total budget for the project uh to come on board and launch their token

14:51natively on taiko and the idea is that we'll provide the full support so when it comes to grants

14:56centralized exchange listings like investments uh marketing kol support and stuff like that to

15:03ensure that the launch is actually successful so that's one of the initiatives that we've been

15:09working on and we will be announcing it during the east denver and we already have like um first

15:14candidate so i will announce it soon as well it's one of one of the really solid and great projects and

15:20we're really happy to be partnered with them so this is number one and number two what i would like to

15:25also mention very important because uh we will be um in san francisco during the ita suffix so on 10th of uh

15:34actually march we'll be hosting an event we have invited a lot of uh i would say important uh well-known

15:42speakers from the space including vitalik he'll be there as well so please come and uh join our base rollup

15:50summit uh the event is also listed on the east sf uh website so we're looking forward to seeing you

15:57there and we'll be making some some important announcements there as well oh i think this is

16:03uh super awesome i think uh this grant program uh i'm sure uh some of the builders within our community

16:11would be very interested to know more about this and we may find some builders who may be of interest to

16:16your network and uh our some of our team members would be there uh um around in march in us so i'll

16:25pass on the information to thomas who probably would be able to attend this event and would be keen to uh

16:31meet you know a lot of other um people in the rollup ecosystem totally totally like we'll be more than

16:38happy it's on ethos of um yeah like please feel free to register we're looking forward uh to seeing

16:46you there and yeah and looking forward also working with the gifted and talented developers super excited

16:53about this and can't wait for the next milestones to unlock absolutely so that uh thanks a lot nikki uh

17:02thanks a lot for joining us today and uh thanks a lot for joining us on the uh roll up and app chain

17:09day uh at ether and work hosted by zeef and i think we would be uh very excited to meet your team

17:15host the event together and uh you know create some good buzz uh during eastern bush absolutely thank you

17:23so much for hosting me it's a pleasure to be here and really awesome to work to work with you guys uh i

17:29remember actually uh like we did certain like also hosted like events in bangkok right where when we

17:37attended one of your rollup days and we were also participating there too it's really a pleasure and

17:42honor to work with you and i'm looking forward to solidifying this partnership further and working

17:48even closer much more closer with you absolutely thank you thank you guys thanks for listening keep

17:56building keep smiling bye-bye thank you bye thank you

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