Fuel Labs Has Kicked Its Ethereum Scaling Tech Plans Into Gear

Courtesy of research spearheaded by John Adler, the “optimistic rollups” technique burst onto the scene in 2019, since becoming one of the brightest star’s in the Ethereum scaling constellation.

Part of that brightness was brought on by the October unveiling of Fuel Labs, an outfit comprised of Adler and Nick Dodson that set out to actualize Fuel, a “trustless scalable sidechain” deployment of optimistic rollups tech.

Fuel caught many Ethereum stakeholders’ attention because of its potential to, among other things, make stablecoin payments on Ethereum considerably more affordable and efficient.

And now its builders are gaining attention again, this time for rolling out a series of early “v0 testnets” of the project the community can actively tinker with.

Rollup Roll Out

These initial Fuel testnets will be used to gauge the deployments’ “stability and performance,” the Fuel Labs team has said, and will precede the more mature Fuel v1 testnet, which could launch by…