October 4, 2021, 9:47AM EDT
• 12 min read
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Quick Take
- Optimistic rollups have been used by protocols such as Optimism and Arbitrum to improve the scalability of Ethereum
- Arbitrum and Optimism have seen significant growth in the number of users and TVLs over the last few months
- Metis, an Optimism fork, aims to provide another optimistic rollup framework with a different optimization between transaction throughput and decentralization
- Metis’ native governance token, METIS, is already in circulation and Metis aims to bring its protocol to Ethereum mainnet in October