What is the value here? To be honest, I don't really understand it either; the coin price just can't seem to rise 😩
In the expansion track, people often mention TPS, Gas, and execution environments, but what ERA wants to solve is not how fast a single chain runs, but the issue that the more Rollups there are, the more fragmented the ecosystem becomes: assets are fragmented, there are state islands, and developers have to maintain multiple logics. ERA's entry point is Metalayer, a coordinating structure that combines message passing, proof verification, ordering settlement, and data availability, allowing multiple Rollups to collaborate as if they were on the same network.
The core components of ERA are four:
Cross-domain message bus: responsible for transmitting events and commands from the source domain to the target domain, ensuring integrity and security.
Verification and proof layer: supports different methods like ZK, Fraud, aggregated signatures, etc., compressing state changes into low-cost verifiable fragments.
Ordering and settlement: determining the time sequence and cost accounting for cross-domain transactions, avoiding disputes caused by the 'time difference' between different chains.
DA options: provide various data availability solutions, allowing projects to freely choose according to cost and security needs.
These components stacked together represent the engineering value of ERA. Developers can directly call cross-domain functions through the SDK and account abstraction interfaces, almost without needing to rewrite business logic. For them, cross-domain calls and local calls are not much different, which lowers the threshold and allows applications to enter multi-domain environments more quickly.
So what is the significance of ERA? Turning 'multiple Rollups in parallel' from theory into a practical engineering system. This is also its biggest difference from other scaling projects: it is not about who is faster on a single chain, but about making multi-chain collaboration more usable.
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