Subcommitments: Off-Chain Finality — Fast, Secure, and Cheap

Audits are essential, but let’s be honest: the current process for getting one can be slow, expensive, and frustrating. It’s not exactly builder-friendly.
Last week, Scroll reduced its block time from 3 seconds to just 1 second. This speed boost directly improves how people interact with our network. Users get faster transaction confirmations, while developers can build more responsive apps.
Scroll is building toward an open economy that empowers builders, users, and founders across the world to scale Ethereum for good. Nowhere is that vision more alive than in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Written by Jonas Theis. We would like to thank Toghrul Maharramov and Luca Donno for their thoughtful reviews and comments on an initial draft of this post, and acknowledge contributions from other Scroll team members Alejandro, Péter, Colin, and Mohammad. TLDR: The article delves into the fundamentals of rollups, an