State of Scaling Issue 4: How The Merge Impacts Rollups and Bridges

The Ethereum Merge is one of the most notable events in the crypto space for 2022 and has garnered a great deal of media attention and financial speculation in the past few months. Generally, the consensus behind the Ethereum Merge is that the existing Proof-of-Work chain should dock successfully into the Proof-of-Stake beacon chain, which has been running since December 2020. 

In this issue of State of Scaling, we will be looking at the impacts of the Ethereum Merge on rollups and bridges before and after the Merge occurs, as well as analyze some of the trends which are already beginning to play out both on Ethereum as well as on the rollups. The following analysis is predicated on a handful of premises, along with the assumption that the reader is familiar with some of the trades that would be made based on the Merge: