Conduit: Deploy Your L3 Rollup for $50/Month

Conduit has launched a platform allowing users to create and implement L3 rollups on Ethereum or other networks in just 15 minutes for $50 a month.

Conduit, a blockchain infrastructure company, has introduced a new platform that lets users create and implement a layer-3 rollup on Ethereum or other networks in as little as 15 minutes and for as little as $50 a month.

On February 21, Conduit announced its debut and argued that “ultra high-throughput” layer 3s will reduce transaction costs even more. The base and OP mainnet are two examples of general-purpose L2 networks. They power hundreds of different applications and are inexpensive and quick, according to a blog post by Conduit on February 21.

Other applications, however require specialized blockspace and even less expensive computing. It continued, “L3s enable programs to scale into demand and cease vying with one another for blockspace. Just one week had passed since Conduit announced on February 15th a comparable solution for layer 2 rollups.

According to Conduit’s deployment software, customers can build a rollup on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet with the least expensive $50 monthly subscription, but they can also deploy on the mainnet with the more expensive $3,000 monthly plan. Users of the Conduit app have the option of using Arbitrum Orbit or Optimism’s OP Stack as the rollup framework, followed by Ethereum, Base, Zora or Mode as the settlement layer for rollup transaction verification. Users can post rollup transaction data on Celestia or Ethereum.

David Hoffman, host of the Ethereum program Bankless, called the L3 additions a “big day for the +1M rollups believers while Nick Martitsch, head of market development at Paradigm, stated that there has never been a simpler method to create a rollup. Regarding Conduit’s development, Paradigm research partner Georgios Konstantopoulos remarked, “I don’t think people appreciate what is going on under the hood here.

Conduit claims that users can install these rollups with just a few clicks, without requiring any code. Some X observers however expressed concerns about the ease of the new rollup launch. 0xngmi, the pseudonymous DeFiLlama developer Another commenter named “h wonder” observed possible problems in the event that users decide to cancel or cease making monthly payments.

The testnet plan has no deployment costs, whereas the mainnet plan requires signups to pay a gas fee for deployment. At the time of writing, this amount is $8,150, or 2.79 Ether (ETH). The deployment of the rollup is completed in approximately fifteen minutes.

Additionally, 7.5% of the layer 3 rollup’s earnings will go to Conduit. The business asserts that by increasing block space to a more “abundant” state, these layer 3 solutions will result in Ethereum and layer 2 transaction costs being more than 100 and 10 times less expensive, respectively.

In a September 2022 essay, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin claimed that Layer 3 might offer customers “customized functionality” to meet their on-chain requirements.He didn’t like the idea of just piling the same scaling method on top of itself though. However, according to Buterin, “a three-layer architecture where the second layer and third layer have different purposes can work.”