OP+Plasma’ a new combination, speed-reading Lattice chain dedicated L2 Redstone.

Introducing 'OP+Plasma' A Revolutionary Combination for Enhanced Reading Speed with Lattice Chain Dedicated L2 Redstone Integration

The MUD team behind the full-chain open source engine launches the L2 Redstone, inspired by Plasma, specifically designed for chain games.Lattice.

Written by: Karen, Foresight News

Yesterday, the team behind the full-chain open source engine, Lattice, announced the launch of L2 Redstone, designed for chaingames and self-made worlds. The Redstone Holesky test network is now live.

Redstone is an Alt-DA chain inspired by Plasma and built on top of the OP Stack. The blockchain scaling solution Plasma allows all data and computations, aside from deposits, withdrawals, and Merkle roots, to be kept off-chain.

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It is worth mentioning that prior to the official announcement of Redstone, Vitalik Buterin published a lengthy article titled “EVM Validiums Exiting Game: Return of Plasma,” stating that Plasma is still a significantly undervalued design space that can completely bypass the data availability problem and greatly reduce transaction costs.

Recommended Reading: “Interpreting Vitalik’s New Work: Will ZK+Plasma Change the Layer 2 Landscape?“

What is Redstone? How does it work?

Redstone is the first Plasma implementation on the OP Stack, developed by Lattice and Optimism specifically for developers of chain games and autonomous worlds.

The main difference between Redstone and other OP Stack Rollups lies in data availability (DA). Redstone does not use L1 Ethereum to achieve DA. Instead, it uses alternative DA providers and only publishes input commitments to L1.

To ensure data availability, Redstone introduces separate Data Availability Challenges, allowing anyone (nodes) to challenge the availability of the data corresponding to a given commitment on L1. The commitment data can be checked on the Rollup input dashboard, and challenges can be raised against the commitments.

When a node challenges an input commitment, the DA provider will publish the input to L1, resulting in increased costs. As a result, Redstone requires nodes to pay a deposit that covers the cost of resolving challenges when submitting a DA challenge. If the DA provider successfully resolves the challenge, the deposit will be destroyed; if not, the deposit will be returned to the challenging node. This is done to reduce SLianGuaim challenges.

In doing so, Redstone significantly reduces transaction costs (which are generally mostly L1 data fees) and inherits the full integrity of Ethereum.

The currently released Redstone Bridge enables ETH transfers between the Holesky test network and the Redstone Holesky test network, with plans to expand to the main network and other asset types (ERC20, ERC721, etc.) in the future.

Lattice: Heavyweight Player in the Full-Chain Game

Lattice’s product development covers chains, execution layers, L2, on-chain operating systems, EVM frameworks, tools, and applications. Among them, Lattice’s well-developed Ethereum application framework MUD has successfully compressed the complexity of building EVM applications in the full-chain field through tightly integrated software stacks.

Lattice’s achievements are thanks to the efforts and support of the team members and contributors. Lattice’s website lists 13 team members and up to 58 contributors.

Lattice’s main sponsors and incubators are 0xLianGuaiRC. 0xLianGuaiRC is a research organization formed by Gubsheep, the initiator of Dark Forest. Projects sponsored, supported, or otherwise involved by 0xLianGuaiRC include Dark Forest, Lattice, ZKonduit, Index Supply, ZuLianGuaiss, ZFT, Hack Lodge, EthUniversity, and more. The funding for 0xLianGuaiRC comes from donations from Ethereum Foundation, Gitcoin, ETHGlobal, and others.

In the summer of 2022, Lattice founder Ludens collaborated with Alvarius to develop zkDungeon, an on-chain game that combines chessboard games and battle royale games. They later realized that the priority was to build an operating system, gradually exploring the ECS (Entity, Component, and System) pattern and releasing MUD V1 based on it.

According to the Github record, MUD adds conventions for organizing data and logic, abstracting away low-level complexity so that developers can focus on the functionality of their applications. In other words, MUD standardizes the way data is stored on the chain. With this standardized data model, MUD can provide all network code to synchronize contracts and client states.

In 2022, Lattice also collaborated with Optimism to use MUD to release OPCraft, a Minecraft clone on the chain, in just one and a half months.

Currently, the Lattice team is developing MUD V2, which will provide developers with greater flexibility in reading and writing to the blockchain. In addition to MUD V2, Lattice is also developing Sky Strife, a full-chain real-time strategy game (official testnet launches on November 27), and other infrastructure products related to MUD. Projects supported by MUD also include Primodium, a full-chain city-building game, and Word3, an on-chain word puzzle game.

Full-chain gaming is undoubtedly one of the potential areas driving the mass adoption of Web3. As an important infrastructure and promoter of full-chain gaming, Lattice is creating new gaming experiences through game engines, L2, and game applications.

References:

https://lattice.xyz/media/2023/redstone

https://lattice.xyz/about

https://mud.dev/introduction

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