The blockchain scalability debate has raged for years, but real breakthroughs won’t come from stacking technologies — they’ll come from reframing the problem itself. At ME Network, we believe the core challenge isn’t “how do we make one chain faster?” It’s “how do we let different applications get exactly what they need?” That’s why we chose Rollups — and why we’re pushing them further.
From the Impossible Triangle to Modular Architecture
The blockchain “trilemma” — the idea that security, decentralization, and scalability can’t coexist — has haunted the industry for years. The conventional approach is finding a compromise between the three, but that’s just a game of trade-offs. ME Network takes a different path: we use modular architecture to separate concerns, letting ME Hub (the settlement layer) focus on security and final verification while delegating performance scaling to the Rollup layer (execution layer).
This isn’t just “offchain processing” — it’s a fundamental restructuring of responsibilities. Think of ME Hub as a constitutional court that rules only on the legitimacy of final outcomes, while the Rollup layer acts as local courts handling specific cases. This division of labor lets each layer perform at its peak instead of forcing a single system to bear all the pressure.
The Essence of Rollups: Compressing and Transmitting Trust
To understand why Rollups work, you first need to understand where blockchain’s real costs lie. Traditional blockchains aren’t slow and expensive because they lack computing power — they’re slow and expensive because “trust verification” costs too much. Every node independently verifies every transaction. This redundant verification ensures decentralization but kills efficiency.
Rollups innovate through “trust compression.” They compress the verification work of hundreds or thousands of transactions into a single mathematical proof. The main chain only needs to verify this proof to confirm the validity of all transactions. It’s like going from “proofreading a book word by word” to “verifying the book’s digital signature” — 99% less work, zero compromise on security.
How Rollups Work
Specifically, Rollups operate in three stages:
Offchain Execution Phase:
User transactions are submitted to Rollup nodes, which batch-process them and update the state. Crucially, this process doesn’t involve the main chain, so it can be extremely fast. The nodes generate a “state root” — essentially a fingerprint of the ledger representing the final state after all transactions execute.
Data Aggregation Phase:
Multiple transaction batches are further combined into “super batches” and a completeness proof is generated through Merkle trees. Each batch is bound to the previous batch’s state root, forming an immutable chain structure. This ensures historical data consistency and traceability.
Onchain Verification Phase:
The aggregated data is submitted to the main chain’s smart contracts. This is the critical fork in the road — different Rollup solutions employ different verification strategies.
Through this mechanism, Rollups don’t just achieve order-of-magnitude performance improvements — more importantly, they reconstruct the trust model. The main chain transforms from “executor” to “arbiter,” while the execution layer gains the space for independent innovation and differentiation. This means performance gains no longer depend on centralization sacrifices but on systematic evolution through structural optimization.
From Technology to Ecosystem: The Strategic Significance of Rollups
It’s precisely this “trust reconstruction” and “responsibility decoupling” that elevates Rollups beyond technology into a critical step in blockchain ecosystem evolution. Back to the original question: Why did ME Network choose Rollups?
On the surface, it’s a technical decision — to boost TPS and reduce costs. But fundamentally, it’s an ecosystem strategy — to build a truly sustainable, scalable blockchain ecosystem.
The problem with single-chain architecture isn’t just performance bottlenecks — it’s economic fragility. When all applications compete for the same resources, gas fees spike during network congestion, punishing small-value users and new applications, ultimately calcifying the ecosystem. Through layered architecture, Rollups let different applications operate in different economic spaces, avoiding zero-sum competition.
ME Network’s vision is to become Web3 infrastructure, which means serving billions of users and millions of developers. At that scale, performance isn’t an addition problem — it’s a multiplication problem. We don’t need “a faster chain”; we need “infinitely scalable architecture.” Rollups, especially those with customizable sequencers, are the path to that architecture.
Technology’s ultimate purpose is serving people. When blockchain stops being a toy for tech enthusiasts and becomes a tool everyone uses daily; when decentralization stops being the price of efficiency and becomes the guarantee of better experience — that’s when blockchain technology truly succeeds. ME Network’s Rollup solution is our solid step toward that goal.
About Meta Earth
Meta Earth (ME) is based on a modular, high-performance, infinitely scalable multi-dimensional fusion underlying value network — ME Network, which supports the high-concurrency big data processing needs of traditional industrial applications.
And through an encrypted DID (Decentralized Identifier) system — ME ID & ME Pass which can effectively protect user privacy data, and a co-construction & co-governance mechanism which can fully reflect personal sovereignty and equality for all, as well as an economic model which can guarantee UBI (Unconditional Basic Income) without any distinction, Meta Earth is fully dedicated to enhancing happiness for a better life and maintaining ecological balance to promote sustainability.
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