RISE Chain

In this session hosted by The BLOKC, Matt, Ecosystem and DeFi Growth Lead at Rise Chain, introduces a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 2 rollup designed for what the team calls the Gigagas Era. Drawing on his background in data science and Web3 protocol engineering, Matt walks through how Rise rethinks on-chain execution alongside infrastructure from Paradigm, Celestia, and Polygon.

What the session covers

Matt starts with the core limitation of today’s EVMs: transactions run one after another, which caps throughput and pushes gas prices up whenever the network gets busy. Rise Chain reworks the runtime to remove that bottleneck. It adds full parallel execution and continuous pipelining on top of Paradigm’s open-source Reth (Rust Ethereum) engine. On testnet, this combination handles more than 50,000 transactions per second, roughly two gigagas per second, while still settling in under a second. To keep costs down, Rise relies on Celestia for data availability rather than posting all data to Ethereum directly.

What you can build

Because the execution layer can sustain such high throughput, developers can move applications on-chain that previously needed centralized backends. Matt points to full central limit order book (CLOB) decentralized exchanges, real-time gaming loops, social graph protocols (SocialFi), and high-frequency trading driven by AI agents, all running on a decentralized EVM network.

What’s next

The roadmap moves toward a public testnet and a multi-season Builder Competition. Longer term, Rise plans to implement Based Sequencing, letting Ethereum L1 validators handle sequencing directly. This removes fragmentation and enables atomic composability across multiple L2 rollups.