Anyone can introduce an L3 rollup on Ethereum for as little as $50 a month
Blockchain infrastructure company Conduit has founded a new platform permitting users to create and deploy a layer-3 rollup on Ethereum or other networks in as little as 15 minutes for as low as $50 a month. Conduit revealed the launch in a February 21 X post, stating that “ultra high-throughput “layer 3s will make transactions even less costly.
Starting today, anyone can deploy mainnet rollups on Conduit!
Choose your tech stack by selecting a framework, settlement layer, and data availability ⛓️
Then, enter payment details, fund the deployer wallet, and watch your rollup deploy to mainnet 🚀 pic.twitter.com/45IP7rpzOl
— Conduit (@conduitxyz) February 14, 2024
“Base and OP Mainnet are examples of general-purpose L2 networks. They’re cheap, fast, and power hundreds of different applications,” demonstrated Conduit in a February 21 blog. “But some applications need even cheaper compute and dedicated blockspace. L3s allow apps to stop competing with others for blockspace and scale into their demand.”
The new features were introduced just a week after Conduit announced a comparable solution for layer-2 rollups on February 15. The app permits users to select either Optimism’s Arbitrum Orbit or OP Stack as a rollup framework, with Base, Ethereum, Mode, or Zora as the settlement layer where the rollup transactions are confirmed. Rollup transaction data can also be posted to either Celestia or Ethereum.
Conduit promotes in its ads that these rollups can be launched “in just a few clicks” with “no code required.” There’s no cost to deploy the testnet plan, but those purchasing the mainnet plan must pay a gas fee of 2.79 Ether (worth about $8,150) for deployment. It takes approximately 15 minutes for the rollup to be launched.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued in a September 2022 post that layer 3s could deliver “customized functionality” to users’ on-chain needs. He also wasn’t big on the idea of simply stacking the same scaling method on top of itself, but “a three-layer architecture where the second layer and third layer have different purposes, however, can work,” he added.
