What Is The Sequencing Endgame? Technical Deep Dive with Terry Chung of Eclipse

Welcome to another technical episode of VM Wars, this time looking at the design space of SVM and the sequencing endgame.

Today, we’re getting into the weeds with Eclipse, one of the projects looking to bring Solana to Ethereum. Terry Chung, Eclipse’s head of strategy, sat down with Rushi Manche of Movement Labs to talk about the vision and strategy behind bringing Solana's performance to Ethereum’s ecosystem.

Scaling execution has become the real challenge for rollups, especially with data availability solutions like Celestia and EigenDA advancing quickly. For Eclipse, this means focusing on a single, high-performance L2 rather than spreading thin across multiple rollups. Their aim? To offer a more streamlined path for apps that need speed, while leveraging Ethereum’s deep liquidity and security.

Rushi and Terry eventually discuss the three options for sequencing, and why this question is about security, economics, and vendor lock-in.

We’ll also touch on Eclipse’s upcoming mainnet, which brings new options for bridging and trading across Solana and Ethereum ecosystems.

This was a decently technical pod with a lot of tidbits of wisdom. Enjoy.