Eclipse Roadmap
Last week, the Eclipse Foundation published “Eclipse’s Vision: The Eclipse Economy.” However, this grand vision of a new global hub for economic activity is only possible with powerful technology that is optimized for such scale.
As the Eclipse ecosystem experiences rapid growth, Eclipse Labs is ready to unveil our strategic roadmap for 2025 and beyond. From inception, Eclipse pioneered the robust "beefy sequencer" model—an innovation that inspired our mascot, Turbo the Cow. Staying true to these bovine roots, we're excited to present our next phase of development.
Roadmap Stages
Our work will progress in three stages—Highland (3–6 months), Longhorn (6–12 months), and Wagyu (12+ months)
- The Highland phase centers on elevating platform security and user experience. We'll achieve L2Beat's Stage-1 rollup certification by implementing comprehensive state derivation and foundational fraud proof systems. Simultaneously, we're initiating our decentralization roadmap through the deployment of governance frameworks and enhanced security protocols.
- During the Longhorn phase, we're prioritizing ecosystem expansion and strengthening the value proposition for developers to build on Eclipse. We'll engage deeply with the Rust developer community, introducing them to Eclipse's unique capabilities and value proposition. This expansion aligns strategically with our rollout of MEV redistribution mechanisms and application-specific sequencing features for developers. To accelerate developer adoption, we're developing comprehensive migration tools that streamline both new development and transitions to Eclipse as well as enable an app-centric, mobile-native UX. This developer-centric approach will launch alongside our fraud proof system deployment, reinforcing our platform's security and reliability.
- Our next phase, Wagyu, centers on achieving in-production GigaCompute—unprecedented computational performance delivered through a mainnet rollout of the Giga Scale VM (GSVM), the core of our current in-progress next-generation client. GSVM will integrate with other performance-focused components, such as the enhanced performance-based sequencer architecture and optimized hardware-software co-design. Expect to see concrete, public, replicable benchmarks pertaining to elements of the GSVM-based client in the coming months. We're expanding our technical capabilities by incorporating ZK technology into our fraud proof system, laying the groundwork for validity rollup features within Eclipse. Alongside these performance improvements, we're deepening our investment in superior developer tooling for the SVM ecosystem.
Technical End-Game
Eclipse aims to become the leading SVM-based platform for both performance and developer experience. We're focusing on advanced performance optimization and innovative hardware-software co-design to achieve unprecedented computational capabilities—what we call GigaCompute. This technical evolution will progress alongside our unwavering commitment to progressive decentralization. We'll share a separate announcement about our performance-related plans.
We recognize that Eclipse's true value emerges from its ecosystem of decentralized applications. To nurture this ecosystem, we're building a platform that combines superior GSVM performance with comprehensive developer tooling. By establishing a sustainable developer economy—powered in part by MEV redistribution—we're creating an environment where innovative dapps can thrive, making Eclipse the definitive choice for blockchain development.
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