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This episode digs into CEO Neel Somani's conscious design decision to tap into ETH’s massive network effects while simultaneously leveraging Solana’s high-throughput execution environment. Eclipse’s unique position amongst L2s may ultimately prove to be mutually beneficial to both the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.

In this YouTube livestream, CEO Neel Somani debates modular vs. monolithic blockchains with Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, and Jonathan Charbonneau, managing partner at DBA, moderated by Nick White, COO of Celestia.

In this episode, we chat with Neel Somani, the founder of Eclipse. We begin with an overview of Neel's personal journey in crypto, from exploring Cosmos and appchains, to thinking about Rollups-as-a-Service, to now building an L2 with Eclipse.

Eclipse is a rollup that aims to leverage the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to scale Ethereum's throughput. Advantages include the parallel processing of transactions and independent fee markets, which can help alleviate some of the issues that the Ethereum blockchain currently faces, such as a popular NFT mint congesting the entire chain.

Hartvigsen chats with CEO Neel Somani about the upcoming Eclipse Ethereum layer-2, its design choices as well as various other subjects such as the mainnet release, fee structure/value-accrual, a native token and more.

Regardless of where you land on the Solana vs Ethereum debate, Eclipse shows how the best ingredients from different ecosystems can be combined to produce novel modular blockchains.

CEO Neel Somani reflects on a year of learnings from Eclipse and highlights key lessons that led to the creation of Eclipse Mainnet: Ethereum's fastest L2, powered by the SVM.

Product Manager Sydney Huang of Eclipse, arguably the most groundbreaking L2 in recent memory, joins this episode to discuss how Eclipse succeeded in bringing Solana to Ethereum, a feat thought to be impossible.

The Daily Gwei recaps the architecture announcement of Eclipse’s Ethereum's L2, powered by the SVM.

Blockworks co-founder Michael Ippolito credits Eclipse founder Neel Somani with the “clever” modular design of Eclipse, adding, “it’s going to be down to his [business development] chops to actually go and recruit developers.”

Eclipse will use Solana’s virtual machine for execution, Ethereum for settlement, Celestia for data availability and Risc Zero for proving

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Santos discuss the Eclipse SVM Eth L2 mainnet architecture.

The Bell Curve team discusses the design of Eclipse's Eth L2, powered by the SVM, and more.

CEO Neel Somani and Logan Jastremski discuss bringing parallelization to the Ethereum Roll-Ups Ecosystem, Local Fee Markets, Data Availibility of Celestia, and more.

Eclipse unveiled its mainnet architecture. It uses Ethereum for settlement, the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) for execution, Celestia for data availability (DA), and RISC Zero for fraud proofs. While certainly an abomination of crypto nature, Eclipse is a serious contender for the title of Best Ethereum Rollup.

We’re excited to finally announce the architecture for Eclipse Mainnet: Ethereum’s fastest L2, powered by the SVM.

Bankless invites CEO Neel Somani to discuss Solana on Ethereum. Eclipse is not only a new L2 on the scene, it’s also an L2 framework. It’s a superchain contender.

This is one of the best example of the “modular” thesis, utilizing what the Eclipse team believes to be the best parts from every ecosystem.

In this episode featuring Veronica Buron and Grant Gerber on the Eclipse team, we talk about the live Eclipse testnet, which has over 30 applications building on top of it.

The successful launch of layer-2 chains like Base has "increasingly validated" the modular blockchain thesis. Speaking to Blockworks on the Lightspeed podcast, Eclipse CEO Neel Somani suggests that layer-2 rollups offer the best building platform for businesses.

A recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Foobar about layer-2 rollup sequencer decentralization stirred up debate in the crypto community. He’s got a point, according to Eclipse founder Neel Somani.

Nick White (COO of Celestia) and Neel Somani (founder of Eclipse) join us to debate the tradeoffs of modular vs integrated blockchains. We cover the modular thesis, how Eclipse is bringing the SVM to Ethereum, the hidden costs of modularity, centralized sequencers and L2s, where value will accrue in a modular paradigm and more!

Listen to CEO Neel Somani's talk on RaaS at the Modular Summit 2023.

CEO Neel Somani shares his thoughts about crypto investment. To successfully navigate the digital asset space, Neel advises choosing a category aligned with personal interests and thorough research.

Eclipse welcomes Vijay Chetty as Chief Business Officer. Chetty previously held the role of Head of Business Development for the teams behind Uniswap and dYdX.

Vijay Chetty, former Head of Business Development at decentralized finance (DeFi) companies Uniswap and dYdX, joins Eclipse as Chief Business Officer, leading Eclipse's growth and market penetration.

Neel Somani joins The Interop to discuss modular architecture, various chain comparisons, as well as how Eclipse infrastructure works with other DA layers.

CEO Neel Somani joins DePIN State to talk about Eclipse's solution for scaling Ethereum for DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) projects.

Smart contract platforms are in a race to secure their portion of a potential $2.2 trillion DePIN market.

Crypto's radical architects are dismantling digital dogmas. Together with Neel Somani, Leonard Dorlochter, and Paul Sztorc, we'll be navigating the chaos of the cryptoverse, revealing game-changing L2 solutions, and exposing the tech that could terminate the reign of altcoins.

Neel Somani joins us to discuss how Eclipse enables rollups powered by Solana's parallelizable virtual machine. You've heard the debate: "Rollups don't scale because of the single-threaded EVM." With Eclipse, this is no longer the case. Tune in to learn why Eclipse chose the SVM, Eclipse's design and settlement assurances, how rollups can maintain interoperability, where value accrues in a modular world and more!

Building blockchain-based applications tends to involve compromise at some point. Companies need to decide what to sacrifice — speed, cost, security and so forth — to achieve their particular priorities. Eclipse aims to provide interoperability and customizability to blockchain applications.

This article covers the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) and how this innovative infrastructure enables the Solana blockchain to deliver enhanced performances compared to traditional EVM blockchains like Ethereum.

Listen to Eclipse introduce customizable rollups with the Solana virtual machine. In this talk, we discuss design considerations that motivated Eclipse.

Injective today is releasing Cascade, the first ever Solana SVM rollup for the IBC ecosystem. The integration will bring the Solana Sealevel Virtual Machine (SVM) into the broader Cosmos world.

Eclipse and Injective have partnered to launch Cascade: a rollup chain that is compatible with Solana-based applications. Applications ported from Solana to Cascade will be exposed to the wider Cosmos ecosystem.

Great interview today with Neel Somani, the founder of Eclipse, a rollup provider for specialized protocols in DeFi, GameFi, and much more. This is a powerful platform that will make it easier for protocols to manage performance of their applications on whatever chain they choose.

Eclipse is a flagship project utilizing Celestia DA that implements discrete execution layers (e.g. rollups) that plugs and plays various VMs. Will this model allow the crypto economy to finally scale to onboard its next 100 million users?

Neel Somani from Eclipse joins Cryptocito to talk about bringing Solana projects to the IBC ecosystem.

Customizable rollup provider Eclipse is launching a Solana-focused scaling solution, which allows applications to be compatible with Polygon, the companies exclusively told TechCrunch.

Eclipse is releasing Polygon SVM, a Layer 2 blockchain built for the Polygon network and compatible with Solana. Polygon SVM uses the Sealevel Virtual Machine (SVM) and optimistic rollups, allowing Solana developers to migrate their apps to Polygon.

Yahoo Finance interviews Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse. Eclipse has successfully raised a total of $15 million in funding to develop a universal Layer 2.

Eclipse is welcomed for the third episode of Modular Insights to give a presentation on the workings of IBC and its uses in Eclipse's modular architecture.

Neel Somani is the Founder of Eclipse, an L2 using the Solana Virtual Machine.

Celestia Spotlight is where we hear from the people at the forefront of the modular movement. For the first episode, we welcome Neel from Eclipse!

Saga is pleased to announce a partnership with Eclipse, a Web3 project that is building the first customizable modular rollup using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM).

Ashton Addison speaks with Neel Somani, Founder of Eclipse, on providing rollups designed to let on-chain applications integrate the best of various blockchains, the difference between dApps and app-chains, growth in mainstream use dApps on Solana, and their road to public testnet.

Developer Neel Somani picked up where he left off and raised $15 million for Solana startup Eclipse after his project in the Terra ecosystem tanked. He built a protocol that can swap out its Layer 1 component.

28 individuals and teams were selected for the inaugural cohort of Modular Fellows. Spanning execution layers, rollup infrastructure, DeFi apps, and more, Cohort One is a promising seed in the fast-emerging Celestia ecosystem.

CNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets. On today’s show, we take a deep dive into the technology that makes Solana the fastest technology in the world.

The $9 million seed round was co-led by Tribe Capital and Tabiya, and follows an earlier $6 million in pre-seed funding.