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Espresso is a decentralized shared sequencing and coordination network designed to provide interoperability, fast finality, and composability for layer-2 and layer-3 rollups, validiums, and scaling solutions within the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond. Supported by the Espresso Foundation, the network serves as a shared base layer that enables independent blockchain chains to achieve cross-chain communication, seamless state updates, and shared security. By decoupling transaction sequencing and data availability from execution, Espresso allows rollups and appchains to maintain high throughput while leveraging proof-of-stake consensus, trusted execution environments, and rollup-as-a-service integrations to coordinate state transitions securely across interconnected Web3 ecosystems.

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Public CRYPTOOwnership
2026Year founded
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  • Shared Sequencing Network: A decentralized base-layer protocol that handles transaction ordering and block proposal for external layer-2 and layer-3 rollups, enabling atomic cross-chain composability, rapid transaction confirmation, and unified state transition ordering across independent execution environments.
  • Proof-of-Stake Consensus Infrastructure: A consensus engine powered by the native protocol token, securing transaction ordering across participating scaling solutions by requiring node operators to stake tokens and validate network block proposals under economic penalty mechanisms.
  • Arbitrum Orbit Integration: A specialized integration layer providing seamless sequencing, shared liquidity, and fast cross-chain messaging for rollups built on top of the Arbitrum tech stack, allowing appchains to operate with instant finality.
  • TEE Nitro Integration: Open-source code execution framework utilizing Trusted Execution Environments to process encrypted transactions, protect user privacy, and verify off-chain compute computations before submitting state updates to the underlying layer-1 settlement chain.
  • Rollup-as-a-Service Infrastructure: Partnered deployment modules and developer tools that enable third-party node infrastructure providers to deploy custom application-specific rollups, validiums, and altVM chains directly connected to the shared sequencing layer.
  • Cross-Chain NFT and Messaging Protocol: Interoperability infrastructure facilitating bridge-free cross-chain token minting, asset transfers, and synchronous smart contract calls across multiple connected EVM and non-EVM execution layers.