Scroll Co-founder Haichen: The launch of the Mainnet is a new starting point, focusing the ecosystem on real applications

As an open-source Layer 2 solution led by Asian entrepreneurs, Scroll has always received significant attention from the community. After two years of intensive development and one year of testing, Scroll officially launched its Mainnet in October 2023.

As of October 27, the total locked value on the Scroll blockchain has exceeded 19.3 million USD; the number of Mainnet wallet addresses has surpassed 147,000, and the total number of verified transactions has exceeded 860,000, with an average of nearly 80,000 transactions per day between October 20 and 26.

Recently, Scroll held the ETH Hong Kong event at Cyberport in Hong Kong, marking the first Ethereum community gathering in the city. During the event, Scroll co-founder Haichen Shen gave an exclusive interview, sharing the development history and future plans of Scroll.

Haichen stated that the launch of the Mainnet is an important milestone for Scroll and a new starting point. They will continue to roll out more features, enhance security, reduce user fees, and provide developers with more functionalities to build innovative applications.

Regarding the choice of the zkEVM solution, Haichen believes that zk can provide users with faster and stronger security guarantees. Scroll emphasizes EVM equivalence, allowing developers to use Ethereum development tools directly without modification, thus avoiding potential issues.

In terms of ecological development, Scroll initially focuses on infrastructure support, such as RPC, indexing, cross-chain bridges, and oracles. In the future, it will build an open and neutral platform, with a focus on supporting real-world applications, such as stablecoin payments and AA wallet projects, as well as public goods that are beneficial to the ecosystem.

Haichen stated that the competition for Layer 2 ecosystems has just begun. In the future, it is necessary to make Layer 2 more trustless, enhance security, and attract more developers to participate in innovation. He believes this is not a zero-sum game, and there is still significant growth potential in the entire market.