Scalability has been an innate problem since Ethereum was born. To improve the performance of the network, Ethereum builders and researchers have been exploring different ways to scale.
Up until a few months ago, Plasma was one of the most effective, significant, and promising Layer 2 solutions for scaling Ethereum. State Channels and Truebit were options as well. More recently, alternatives like Rollup have taken the mindshare.

Rollup solved the problem faced by Plasma — data availability, without sacrificing the security and scalability of Ethereum. Some believe that Rollups is more a Layer 1.5 (or Semi-Layer 2) rather than a Layer 2 solution.

In this video, we’ll illustrate a few important aspects of the two technologies and introduce the major decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that are using them.

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