The blockchain communities never really received the memo: Ethereum is becoming a rollup centric platform

Ethereum's high fees have become one of the most popular ways of criticizing the platform, and for good reasons.

However with Optimism currently deploying and Arbitrum launching in August, Ethereum is about to take advantage of a significant increase in scalability and decrease in transaction fees through rollups, without compromising on decentralization.

But the vast majority of blockchain communities still seem to be completely unaware of this.

In fact, the majority of blockchain enthusiasts never got the following memo:

In 2020, Ethereum switched to a rollup-centric roadmap. This change is by far the biggest and most fundamental change that the Ethereum roadmap has ever seen.

Ethereum L1's role has evolved a lot and it now aims at becoming a settlement layer for rollups. Ethereum is no longer focused on being a smart contract platform, but rather, a platform to build smart contract platforms on top of. This starts with The Merge, which will merge the execution layer (previously eth1) and consensus layer (previously eth2), and continue with the release of data shards.

The entire roadmap now entirely revolves around the idea that rollups are THE way through which Ethereum will be used by billions.

It's not true anymore that "Ethereum 2.0 will soon bring fees down", rollups will! But this is unfortunately still the most common misconception about Ethereum's road to scalability.

The reason why is rather obvious: communication around this change has been lacking.

It may be time for this information to be spread more widely, for example through visible and easy to understand articles on Ethereum.org, or pinned posts on r/ethereum and r/ethfinance.

We finally have a solid plan to solve one of the most important limitations of blockchains, maybe we should start talking about it a bit more.