The Ethereum Foundation shared a new blog post on Friday with details of a major initiative aimed at breaking down barriers between Ethereum’s growing constellation of LAG-2 networks.
The initiative marks a strategic turn: After years that have used scaling flow flow and lower costs, the protocol team now resets on interoperability as the key to user experience.
“We see interoperability and related projects presented in this note, as the highest gearing option within the wider UX domain over the next 6-12 months, in our position as a public Ethereum R&D group,” the team wrote in the blog post.
In its core, the update of three goals is zeroing: interoperability, speed and finality. The most immediate push comes from the improvement of UX timetable, which is based on previous work to scale Ethereum’s base layer and its data availability solutions. Now, developers are turning their attention to making the network feel faster, simpler and more united-icing across the scattered landscape of LAG-2 rollups.
The heart of the effort lies in the scheduled Ethereum -The inter operability layer (Eil)A trustless, censorship-resistant messaging system designed to get transverse chain interactions to “feel like one-chain execution”, according to the foundation. A public design document is intended for release in October, which sets the stage for a standard approach to broda formation of assets and data across Rollups.
Completement of EIL is the open framework, a shared infrastructure for “Intents”, a feature where a user -lined goal such as moving funds or trade assets can abstract the fragmented tool that forces developers to sew custom bridges and relays. The framework was first introduced by ecosystem developers in February 2025 and gained popularity among some of the best known Ethereum projects. The goal: A unified UX across chains where users do not have to care for what network they are on.
At the same time, standards work is moving in Tandem, with suggestions such as ERC-7828 and ERC-7683, aiming to harmonize wallet behavior and transaction streams over Rollups. Together, these endeavors point to an Ethereum where applications can span multiple chains without sacrificing security or composition.
Speed improvements are also on the timetable, with a quick L1 confirmation rule expected in early 2026 to bring Ethereum -Confirmation times down to 15-30 seconds. Faster LAG-2 settlement and research into halving blocking times from 12 seconds to six could further reduce latency for interactions across chain.
The consequences of these improvements are not only significant for rolllups, but also for applications and defi. If developers succeed in making Rollups feel like a network, liquidity and capital efficiency can wave, which unlocks new kinds of products without friction and risk of today’s bridge -forming solutions.
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