Scroll just reached Stage 1 on L2BEAT, making it the first general-purpose ZK rollup to hit the milestone.

Scroll, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built as a zkEVM rollup, has been recognized by L2BEAT as having reached Stage 1 in its rollup maturity framework, making it the first general-purpose zero-knowledge rollup to achieve this milestone. Stage 1 in the L2BEAT/Vitalik Buterin “training wheels” taxonomy refers to rollups that have a production-ready proof system and contract-based governance, while still retaining a security council with limited emergency powers. Scroll’s team announced that this status follows its recent “Euclid” upgrade, which fully wired its zk-proof system into on-chain contracts and enabled permissionless submission of blocks and proofs via Ethereum mainnet. Under Stage 1, Scroll’s state and withdrawals are secured by validity proofs posted and verified on Ethereum, and users can rely on on-chain mechanisms to exit even if the centralized operator is unavailable. The system is governed by smart contracts and a 12-member Security Council with a high quorum threshold, intended as a temporary safeguard while decentralization is incrementally increased. This recognition matters because it places Scroll at the forefront of zkEVM rollups in terms of decentralization and trust assumptions, signaling to developers and users that the network has moved beyond an experimental, fully admin-controlled phase toward a more credibly neutral and robust security model within the broader Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem.

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