The Ethereum Foundation shared a new Blog post on Friday, which details an important initiative aimed at breaking down the barriers between the Ethereum Layer-2 networks of networks of Ethereum.
The initiative marks a strategic pivot: after years of spending on performance and reducing costs, the protocol team is now focusing on interoperability as the key to the user experience.
“We see interoperability and related projects presented in this note, such as the highest leverage opportunity within the broader UX domain in the next 6-12 months, in our position as a public & D group of Ethereum,” the team wrote in the blog post.
In essence, the update focuses on three objectives: interoperability, speed and purpose. The most immediate impulse comes from the best UX roadmap, which is based on previous works to climb the Ethereum base layer and its data availability solutions. Now, the developers are focusing their attention to make the network feel faster, simpler and more unified, especially in the extensive landscape of the Rollups of layer 2.
The heart of the effort lies in the planned interoperability layer of Ethereum (Eil)A censorship resistant messaging system designed to make cross -chain interactions “feel like a single chain,” according to the Foundation. A public design document is scheduled for its launch in October, preparing the scenario for a standard approach to join assets and data in the Rollups.
EIL complement is the framework of open intentions, a shared infrastructure for “attempts”, a characteristic in which a user of the objectives of the users, such as moving the funds or commercial assets, can abstract the fragmented tools that force developers to join bridges and personalized resigners. The framework was first introduced by ecosystem developers in February 2025 and gained popularity among some of the best known Ethereum projects. The objective: a unified UX in the chains where users do not need to worry about what network they are.
At the same time, the work of standards moves together, with proposals such as ERC-7828 and ERC-7683 aimed at harmonizing the behavior of the wallet and transaction flows through the rolls. Together, these efforts point to an Ethereum where applications can cover multiple chains without sacrificing safety or composability.
The speed improvements are also on the road map, with a rapid confirmation rule of L1 that is expected in early 2026 to reduce the confirmation times of Ethereum to 15-30 seconds. The fastest layer 2 settlement and research on half of blocking times of 12 seconds to six could further reduce latency for cross chain interactions.
The implications of these improvements are significant not only for Rollups but also for applications and defi. If developers manage to make the rolls feel like a network, liquidity and capital efficiency could increase, unlocking new types of products without friction and the risk of today’s bridge solutions.
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