Ethereum researcher Justin Drake publishes article discussing “native rollups”, which is expected to achieve trustless expansion

On January 23rd, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake published a post on the ethresearch forum discussing a new rollup design called "native rollups". In short, it relies on Ethereum L1 validators for proof, specifically state transition functions and verification. This is in contrast to Optimism Rollup (such as Optimism, Arbitrum) or zk-Rollup (such as Starknet, ZKsync), which push the burden of executed computations to L2 and then rely on fraud or zk proof systems to generate state roots and proofs, and return to the main network.

Drake's proposal suggests introducing an "execute" precompile (hard-coded function in EVM) that transitions the EVM state that verifies user transactions. Native rollups achieve the following two breakthroughs:

No longer requiring investment and maintenance of expensive miner proof networks and dedicated GPU hardware, as the proof will be handled and executed by L1 validators; No longer needing to maintain complex governance structures, including trusted security committees to approve contract upgrades to achieve EVM equivalence.

This actually makes native rollup "trustless" by inheriting the security of Ethereum L1.