Taiko, an open-source and Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup to scale the Ethereum ecosystem, has started a new partnership with Nethermind, a software and research company. The collaboration focuses on establishing a resilient infrastructure to drive the rollup ecosystem. The platform provided the details of this partnership on social media.
Taiko x Nethermind: Building to Empower the Based Rollup EcosystemWe’re excited to announce our strategic partnership with @NethermindEth to build infrastructure that elevates the entire based rollup ecosystem without compromise. pic.twitter.com/TQqH07DzaP
— Taiko.eth (@taikoxyz) July 4, 2025
Taiko Forges Partnership with Nethermind to Boost Ethereum Rollup Infrastructure
The partnership between Taiko and Nethermind attempts to deliver a strong infrastructure to advance the rollup world network. In this respect, this development brings together a couple of Ethereum-local teams with comprehensive alignment, security, decentralization, and production-scale performance. Hence, the strategic collaboration is set to revolutionize the L2 landscape of Ethereum by transforming high-scale research into permissionless, real systems to carry out mainnet deployment.
The joint endeavor takes into account research, upstream contributions, implementations, standardization, client changes, and proofs-of-concept (PoCs). Thus, the partnership aims to expedite the rollup ecosystem of Ethereum without any compromise on decentralization. The notable areas that this development covers include preconfirmation infrastructure, layer-2 fee mechanism plan, ZK metering, and profiling, as well as EIP-7917 implementation.
Driving Open-Source Contributions, Decentralization, and Permissionlessness
Keeping this in view, Taiko considers this collaboration to be more than just technical. Particularly, the mutual initiative underscores a shared commitment to upstream protocol alignment, open-source contributions, and decentralization ethos of Ethereum. Overall, this development bolsters the advancement of the rollup ecosystem by establishing permissionless and robust systems for mainnet.
