According to PANews, Fuel Labs, the developer of the Optimistic Rollup project Fuel V1, announced that the project will evolve into 'Rollup OS' before its mainnet release in the third quarter of 2024. The transition to 'Rollup OS' is specifically aimed at addressing key limitations of Ethereum's current Rollup architecture.
With the mainnet launch later this year, Fuel will introduce a dedicated virtual machine designed to improve the performance of Ethereum aggregators (developed using the platform) by enabling parallel transaction execution, allowing for concurrent processing of multiple transactions. In this way, it will compete with projects like Monad and Sei, which also offer EVM parallelization, although these competitors are alternative Layer1 networks.
The project will also use state minimization techniques to combat state bloat, which refers to the ever-increasing accumulation of data that must be fully stored and managed by nodes within the blockchain to ensure proper chain validation and state transitions. These state minimization techniques also help improve the performance of Rollups. Fuel claims that such products will allow Fuel-powered Rollups to scale— inheriting Ethereum-level security while maintaining minimal node operation costs.