Unifying Ethereum Rollups with Solana-Grade Speed
**Rome Protocol**, the modular infrastructure layer engineered to solve rollup fragmentation, has officially launched its **Public Shared Sequencer Testnet**. Backed by **$9 Million** in seed financing led by **Hack VC** and **HashKey Capital**, with contributions from **Portal Ventures** and **Bankless Ventures**, Rome utilizes the high-throughput **Solana** blockchain to provide decentralized sequencing for Ethereum Layer 2 and Layer 3 rollups.
As the number of Ethereum rollups proliferated, liquidity became isolated inside independent chains with centralized sequencers posing censorship risks. Rome eliminates this bottleneck by deploying smart contracts on Solana that order and batch EVM rollup transactions.
Core Advantages of Rome Sequencing
* **Sub-400ms Slot Finality**: Rollups inherit Solana's lightning-fast block times, giving users near-instant transaction confirmations. * **Atomic Cross-Rollup Swaps**: Transactions across multiple independent rollups execute atomically within the same block, eliminating bridge delay risks. * **Decentralized MEV Redistribution**: Sequencer value is transparently auctioned and redistributed to users and liquidity providers.
Rome's novel bridging of Solana's raw throughput and Ethereum's economic security represents one of the most exciting developments in modular blockchain design.
