Ethereum’s rollups are ‘gold standard’ but Plasma needs a revisit: Buterin

Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals and Merkle roots — to an off-chain environment.

It was superseded by optimistic and zero-knowledge (ZK)-rollups as the two solutions offered cheaper client-side data storage costs and security properties that “cannot be matched,” Buterin explained in a Nov. 14 X (Twitter) post.

Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasmahttps://t.co/QgyzXAl0wv

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) November 14,… Read more on Cointelegraph

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