Friday, the Ethereum Foundation shared a new blog article detailing a major initiative aimed at decomposing obstacles between the growing constellation of Ethereum of layer 2 networks.
The initiative marks a strategic pivot: after the years spent on the scale and lower cost, the protocol team is now focusing on interoperability as the key to user experience.
“We note the interoperability and related projects presented in this note, such as the highest lever opportunity in the broader UX field in the next 6 to 12 months, in our position as a Core Ethereum Public R&D group,” the team wrote in the blog post.
Basically, zeros update on three goals: interoperability, speed and finality. The most immediate push comes from the UX Improvement roadmap, which is based on previous work to scale the basic layer of Ethereum and its data availability solutions. From now on, the developers turn their attention to the fact that the network feels faster, simpler and more unified, especially through the sprawling landscape of layers 2.
The heart of the effort lies in the planned Ethereum interoperability layer (Eil)A messaging system without confidence and resistant to censorship designed to make transversal interactions “feel as a single chain execution”, according to the Foundation. A public design document should be published in October, preparing the way for a standard approach to fold the assets and data between rollers.
Completing EIL is the OPEN Inteent framework, a shared infrastructure for “intentions”, a functionality in which an objective failed by the user such as the displacement of funds or trading of assets, can abstraction of the fragmented tools which obliges developers to assemble personalized bridges and relays. The framework was introduced for the first time by the developers of ecosystems in February 2025 and gained popularity among some of the most famous Ethereum projects. The objective: a unified UX between chains where users do not need to worry about the network in which they are.
At the same time, the work of standards moves in tandem, with proposals such as the ERC-7828 and the ERC-7683 aimed at harmonizing the behavior of the portfolio and the flows of transactions through the rollers. Together, these efforts point to an Ethereum when the applications can extend over several channels without sacrificing security or composibility.
Speed improvements are also on the roadmap, with a rapid L1 confirmation rule expected at the beginning of 2026 to reduce Ethereum confirmation times to 15 to 30 seconds. A faster colony and research in layer 2 on blocking times by half by 12 seconds to six could further reduce latency for transverse interactions.
The implications of these improvements are significant not only for rolllups but also for applications and defi. If the developers succeed in ensuring that the rolls feel like a network, the liquidity and the efficiency of the capital could increase, unlocking new types of products without friction and risk of today’s bristing solutions.
Find out more: Ethereum developers publish a new initiative to simplify transversal transactions
