Puffer Finance Launches UniFi AVS To Enhance Ethereum's Speed And Decentralization

According to Odaily, Puffer Finance has introduced UniFi AVS, a new product aimed at unlocking the full potential of based rollups to address Ethereum's fragmentation issues. This innovation allows Ethereum to surpass other Layer 1 (L1) solutions in speed without compromising decentralization. Utilizing EigenLayer, UniFi AVS introduces pre-confirmations (preconfs) to Ethereum, enabling rapid transaction capabilities for both L1 and based rollups, and providing new revenue streams for validators. With preconfs, validators commit to including transactions in blocks before submitting them to Ethereum L1, significantly reducing transaction confirmation times from 12 seconds to just 100 milliseconds. Additionally, UniFi AVS ensures accountability through an on-chain registration and forfeiture mechanism. Validators who fail to honor their pre-confirmation commitments face penalties, thereby maintaining the system's reliability and security. UniFi AVS also allows validators to profit from pre-confirmations, creating new revenue opportunities in a fully permissionless manner.