Compiler vendor Eclipse is releasing software that allows Solana apps to be compatible with Polygon
Customizable scrolling vendor Eclipse is launching a Solana-focused scaling solution, allowing applications to be compatible with Polygon, the companies told TechCrunch exclusively.
Rollups, part of the layer-2 blockchain ecosystem, are a scaling solution to make blockchains faster and cheaper. Digests work by compiling a number of transactions into a bundle to enter a layer-1 blockchain such as Ethereum or Solana. So basically, instead of sending thousands of individual transactions, it’s one bigger one that costs less.
The Polygon Solana – or Sealevel – Virtual Machine (SVM) will be powered by Eclipse and will be able to run smart contracts and tools compatible with Solana, which will ultimately increase throughput and interoperability for crypto sub-sectors such as gaming, DeFi and more. Neel Somani, founder of Eclipse, told TechCrunch.
“Ethereum was obviously still very slow and still very expensive, so it was very obvious rollups were the way to scale Ethereum,” Somani said. “So we thought, what if we made a highly parallelized digest, but the difference is that we stick to a standard set of tools that already exist like the Solana Virtual Machine or the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).”
That was the initial motivation behind Eclipse, but it has evolved into a customizable rollup provider: people can choose a base level (like Polygon or Solana), choose a virtual machine like EVM or SVM, and make customizations in the application that can contain different core-level elements , Somani said.
Applications, games, projects, protocols and more are still “too expensive” in the crypto ecosystem, but rollups can help support different use cases without limiting the blockchain, Somani said.
Through the launch, decentralized applications (dApps) built for the Solana blockchain can migrate or become multi-chain through Polygon SVM, which can open the doors to both communities that use and build on different blockchains.
Between the two communities, there has been a high demand for a collaborative solution in mainly gaming and physical infrastructure applications, Somani said. “Those are the big areas that we’ve seen demand for, and those are the areas that Polygon and Solana have been going after lately.”
In the long term, Eclipse sees this launch as just the beginning of scaling.
“I think this leans toward a future proliferation of all kinds of virtual machines across all these different base layers,” Somani said. “This could be an example of an SVM rollout, but we will likely see SVM on the Ethereum mainnet or SVM on other base layers.”
Correction: The headline of this story was updated to reflect the launch of the scaling solution.
