Currently, on the Zepoch node airdrop page, the modular Layer2 Rollup project Eclipse appears in its airdrop list.
In line with the recent news that Eclipse has announced that its Layer 2 mainnet architecture will be powered by SVM and will be launched on the mainnet at the end of this year, it has inevitably led to two speculations: one is that Eclipse may soon contribute to the early stage of the ecosystem with certain rules. One person issues token airdrops (the current token name and airdrop rules have not been disclosed), and the other is a Zepoch node holder or within the Eclipse airdrop range.
From the perspective of the Zepoch node, as an equity asset of the Zebec Protocol streaming payment ecology, holding a Zepoch node will obtain a series of rights and interests, including Zebec ecology's revenue sharing, invitation rewards, airdrop rewards, etc.
In terms of airdrop rights, Zepoch node holders have currently received several rounds of POSE token airdrops issued by the Nautilus Chain ecological project PoseiSwap, while other ecological projects that have not yet airdropped but have clear airdrop plans (the specific airdrop plan may not be disclosed) ), appears in the airdrop list of the Zepoch node. Therefore, the emergence of Eclipse basically confirms that Zepoch nodes will receive airdrops provided by Eclipse in the future.
Eclipse: the pioneer of modular Layer2 solutions
Eclipse is a modular Rollup platform and one of the latest solutions for Layer2. Not long ago, Eclipse also officially released its mainnet architecture. As a sovereign rollup based on the Cosmos ecosystem, it uses Celestia as the consensus layer and DA. While being highly compatible with EVM, it also uses Solana VM (which was mainly used in the early stage). ), PolygonSVM, etc. serve as settlement and execution environments, and complete ZK fraud proof through RISC Zero. The settlement layer Rollup built by Eclipse based on Solana VM will also be iterated into Optimistic Rollup and Zk Rollup in the future, which will provide developers with more Rollup solution options.
Eclipse allows developers to use Solana VM to build customizable modular Rollups on any chain. As a new chain, the RaaS (Rollup-as-a-service) tool can develop different technical solutions in a modular manner with low threshold ( Layer2 layer). These new Rollup layers have independent sovereignty and can obtain many supports including DA, settlement, consensus, etc. in a decentralized form from multiple parties at runtime, rather than relying entirely on one party. The ultimate vision of Eclipse is to build a customizable Rollup execution layer for any Layer 1 heterogeneous blockchain and connect all blockchains in a modular manner.
Eclipse co-founder & CEO Neel Somani recently talked about its newly released mainnet framework on the Bankless podcast. The original intention of Eclipse was to bring Solana to Ethereum. Parallel execution is a major advantage of Solana. SVM and its Sealevel runtime enable parallelism. Trade execution is possible. This allows SVM to scale directly as processors continue to add more cores at lower cost. They wanted to take advantage of Solana's execution capabilities while leveraging Ethereum's settlement and liquidity, but encountered many limitations and constraints. The main challenge was that Ethereum data availability was too expensive, so they decided to introduce Celestia and Risk Zero. Celestia was used for data availability, while Risk Zero is used for fraud proof.
Based on a new modular architecture, Eclipse is combining the high performance of Solana with the security, verifiability and network effects of Ethereum. The Eclipse mainnet is expected to provide faster transaction speeds and larger transaction sizes for the Ethereum ecosystem. , while providing developers and users with a better experience. With parallel transaction processing capabilities, Eclipse is expected to perform up to 10 times faster than competitors such as Optimism.
Currently, dozens of projects such as BNB Chain, Solana SVM Rollup Cascad “Cascade” launched by Iejective, Near, Avail, a modular blockchain developed by Polygon, and Nautilus Chain, a modular blockchain under Zebec Ecosystem, are deployed on the Eclipse test network. and became its strategic partner.
As the most advanced industry infrastructure at present, Eclipse has also attracted great attention in the field of crypto capital. It is understood that the project has completed a total of US$15 million in financing in 2022, with investors including Polychain, Polygon Ventures, Tribe Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, CoinList, etc.
Previously, a series of Layer 2 facilities represented by Optimism, Arbitrum, etc. successively issued airdrops after launching the main network, starting a new round of airdrop boom. After Eclipse announced a new mainnet framework plan and announced plans to launch the mainnet at the end of this year, it triggered industry speculation that Eclipse might release governance tokens and airdrops. Especially the inclusion of Eclipse in the Zepoch node airdrop list further confirms this speculation.
Eclipse: Supporter of the long-term development of the Zebec ecosystem
The Zebec Protocol ecosystem is very closely linked to the Eclipse ecosystem itself. Nautilus Chain is a public chain member of the Zebec Protocol ecosystem. As the industry's first modular, Layer3 architecture public chain, it is receiving long-term underlying support from Eclipse.
Nautilus Chain itself is a new upgrade of the blockchain architecture idea. It integrates many facilities such as Celestia, Eclipse, EigenLayer, etc., and encapsulates the functions and resources provided by these facilities into different modules for developers to plug in and out. way to select and replace without having to reinvent the wheel. Nautilus Chain is more like a new computer architecture, in which various components are modularly packaged. Users can select CPU, memory, hard disk and other components from different brands, and assemble and adapt them by plugging and unplugging them. With the Nautilus Chain, the role played by Nautilus Chain is the data translation and interface layer. Therefore, based on Nautilus Chain, Dangdang developers who need to use sharding to support business only need to upgrade the expansion layer. If they want to support more languages, they only need to upgrade the interface and translation layer.
This modular design will make the blockchain more flexible in terms of functionality, scalability, and composability. It also means that it can achieve higher scalability and expansion capabilities, and further improve on the basis of Layer 2. Improves network throughput, security, and privacy.
The emergence of Optimistic, Arbitrum and some pan-Zk-rollup solutions are essentially patching Ethereum Layer 1. After Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin proposed the Layer3 concept, Layer3 is usually considered to be a patch for Layer2. It is more like building a new layer based on Layer2, and may further gain at the expense of decentralization, security and other factors. Brand new customization to make up for the shortcomings of Layer2.
Nautilus Chain is a new concept Layer3 system, which itself plays the role of data translation and interface layer, and the modular position of this layer is above Layer2, so it is also called a new form of Layer3 architecture. During the operation process, Nautilus Chain plays the role of the parallel processing layer at the top and provides developers with optional and pluggable customized solutions in a modular manner, which helps to achieve a reliable implementation of the execution layer in the EVM environment. Scalability.
From a developer's perspective, when they want to develop and upgrade applications to achieve more functions, reduce operating costs, enhance security, and gain more sovereignty, developers can use the package of modules provided by Nautilus Chain more extensively. , choose the solution that suits you, and choose to develop DAPP-Chain, DAPP-Rollup or DAPP-Subnet, etc.
Eclipse is one of the most important underlying facilities in the Nautilus Chain system. Developers based on Eclipse Nautilus Chain can customize and develop rollups of different solutions with the support of Eclipse, and can build various "independent" and parallel rollups from the bottom up. DAPP-Chain or DAPP-Rollup or DAPP-Subnet that operates independently and has independent sovereignty allows developers to stack different chains into layers, thereby creating a chain stack, and no longer needs to eventually go back to Layer1. In this process, Nautilus Chain plays the role of a parallel processing layer on top, helping to achieve scalability at the execution layer in the EVM environment.
In addition, Eclipse's unique SVM solution allows the Sealevel runtime to make parallel transaction execution possible, which not only makes Nautilus Chain compatible with EVM but also has the fastest execution speed.
From another perspective, in addition to being the underlying infrastructure of Nautilus Chain, Eclipse is also a long-term strategic partner between the Zebec Protocol ecosystem and Eclipse. The two parties maintain a long-term market cooperation relationship and are long-term co-builders of each other to promote the long-term development of each other's ecology. Prosperity.
When Eclipse has airdrop expectations, Zepoch will be one of the beneficiaries.