Lisk determined to leverage the Ethereum community after discovering out that extra 90% of person transaction charges on L1 platforms had been Ethereum-based.
Lisk (LISK), the open-source blockchain community and platform for decentralized purposes (dApp), has introduced it has determined to hitch the Ethereum ecosystem as a layer 2 (L2) platform. In accordance with an official blog post, Lisk is constructing the upcoming ecosystem on Gelato’s Rollup, and powering it through Optimism’s OP Stack.
Why Lisk Is Integrating Ethereum
The transfer was born out of analysis carried out early this yr, whereas attempting to increase its product roadmaps. The research included deep perception into L1 and L2 landscapes. Lisk shared the analysis report, which discovered that greater than 90% of transaction charges customers spend on L1 chains are captured throughout the Ethereum community. The report reads:
“This realization led the management crew, in Q2 of this yr, to begin actively wanting into options to leverage Ethereum’s extraordinary market share with the intention to improve Lisk’s ecosystem.”
The announcement states that The Lisk Basis will make the transfer subsequent yr. Explaining the choice, the weblog put up says that Lisk will collaborate with Base and Optimism as an early member of Optimism’s Superchain. The Superchain will enable Lisk to hitch a consortium of chains that share a dedication to openness and decentralization, in assist of Optimism’s Law of Chains. Optimism, Lisk, Base, and different contributors hope to construct higher infrastructure to draw the “subsequent 1 billion customers” in Web3.
Lisk mentioned it can deploy the L2 testnet within the first quarter of 2024 and observe that with a developer launch within the second quarter. Lisk will then launch the mainnet someday after. The transfer comes with a number of advantages, together with 90% cheaper charges for builders than on the Ethereum mainnet. As well as, the Lisk L2 will take pleasure in the identical safety on Ethereum, and can profit from enhancements on the community as it’s also appropriate with the Ethereum Digital Machine (EVM).
Advantages of the Ethereum Transfer
The EVM compatibility will open Lisk builders to a wider vary of instruments for dApp constructing. As well as, present EVM-based purposes can even be simply deployed on Lisk. Moreover, Lisk builders and customers could have entry to a lot greater liquidity throughout a number of hundreds of tokens. Additionally, the transfer additionally permits customers to switch any ERC-20 token to and from Lisk’s L2.
Along with particular advantages, Lisk touts some great benefits of utilizing the OP Stack and becoming a member of the Superchain. Considered one of them is tackling the fragmentation created by L1 and remoted L2 chains. Customers can simply work together with any purposes on Optimism, Lisk, Base, or some other L2 platform a part of the Superchain. There is also the advantage of becoming a member of an ecosystem with a number of completely different chains striving at a standard purpose.
On what occurs to the Lisk L1, the challenge hopes to show it right into a community-driven challenge. The plan is for the Lisk neighborhood crew (Moosty) to take over and function below a brand new model and title. For the following 2 years, the Lisk Basis will present monetary and technical assist for the L1.
“We need to spotlight that we’ll proceed to keep up the Lisk L1 and all our merchandise till the LSK token is migrated as an ERC-20 token to Ethereum and the Moosty crew [takes] over the Lisk L1 growth,” the crew wrote.
