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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 29, 2026Published at 1:42 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Researcher Proposes "Ephemeral Rollups" That Hold No Lasting User State as Layer-2 Deposits Fall Across the Board
The proposal argues that rollups need exit mechanisms only because they keep custody of user state, and L2Beat data show value secured on the largest layer-2 networks fell between 2.4% and 29.5% in a week.
A post on the Ethereum Research forum titled "Ephemeral Rollup: The New 'L1.5' of Ethereum" argues that Ethereum's core job has always been to verify state transitions. Rollups made that verification compact, the author writes, but they als…
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