Market Eclipse Brings Solana's Parallel Runtime To Ethereum 2025
Eclipse combines high-throughput execution with Ethereum settlement in a way no other L2 has attempted. Cointelegraph Research breaks down the architecture and the milestones that will define its trajectory.
The majority of Ethereum rollups have converged on a single model, in which the EVM is still the execution engine. So parallel execution remains a vague ambition rather than a feature of most Ethereum L2s. Eclipse takes a different path. It brings the Solana Virtual Machine into an Ethereum-anchored environment and restructures the rollup stack around it.
The latest report by Cointelegraph Research examines how this design emerged, the problems it solves and what questions it raises for the broader layer-2 ecosystem. It highlights where Eclipse diverges from existing rollups and why these differences matter for developers, users and institutions.
Read the full report here to explore Eclipse’s architecture, economics and path toward verifiable rollup status.
The SVM introduces deterministic parallelism into the Ethereum rollup landscape. Instead of competing for the same global queue, applications can operate in separate lanes. This affects congestion control, fee markets and how system-level performance scales in periods of high activity.
Localized fee markets isolate busy applications, so spikes in one program do not raise costs network-wide. This combination of lane-based execution and isolated fee formation is a key reason the system behaves differently under load compared to EVM-based rollups.
The design also reflects Eclipse’s deliberate retreat from the hyper-modular Rollups-as-a-Service model that they first pursued. Rather than offering dozens of configurations, Eclipse fixed its architecture. Our report traces the path from Eclipse’s original experiments with Polygon SVM and Cascade to a single shared network that executes on the SVM, settles on Ethereum and publishes data to Celestia.
Read the full report here to explore Eclipse’s architecture, economics and path toward verifiable rollup status.
Eclipse uses ZK-accelerated fraud proofs powered by RISC Zero. In most optimistic rollups, disputes unfold through multi-round interactive games that replay parts of the execution on Ethereum. Eclipse instead encapsulates the contested computation in a single succinct proof, which can be submitted when a challenge arises. This shortens the dispute process and avoids reconstructing intermediate states on Ethereum.
Our report examines how this
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