Glossary term

Rollup

Definition

A type of layer 2 that bundles many transactions and posts their summarized data to the main chain. The main varieties are optimistic rollups and zk-rollups.

Example

When withdrawing from an optimistic rollup to Ethereum directly, a user typically waits about a week, the period during which anyone can challenge an invalid transaction.

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