Where Should I Deploy My Contracts? A Practical Experience Report

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10535v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:44:43 GMT
• Title: Where Should I Deploy My Contracts? A Practical Experience Report
• Authors: Cătălina Lazăr, Gabriela Secrieru, Emanuel Onica,
• Abstract summary: OP networks provide a reliable trust anchor to decentralized applications (DApps) backed by smart contracts.<n>Many Layer 2 (L2) rollup solutions emerged, meant to scale the base Layer 1 (L1) network.<n>We perform evaluations for two use cases of DApps: a voting DApp with high security demands, suited for L1 deployment, and a cost-sensitive supply chain DApp, where L2 can be an option.
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• Abstract: Blockchain networks provide a reliable trust anchor to decentralized applications (DApps) backed by smart contracts. The Ethereum ecosystem now encompasses most blockchain networks that provide compatible support for smart contracts code. Recently, many Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) rollup solutions emerged, meant to scale the base Layer 1 (L1) network, consequently decreasing transaction fees and diversifying the usage scenarios. Furthermore, the number of blockchain providers that offer access to the network infrastructure for both L1 and L2 continuously increases. A developer is faced with a multitude of deployment options and must weigh between the gains in costs and the losses in trust that are still an issue with L2. A decisive factor in this trade-off can be the use case itself, depending on its security requirements. Still, the evaluation of costs and performance cannot be ignored and should rely on a set of measurable metrics, although choosing the right metrics can be complicated. In this practical experience report, we explore the relevance of several such metrics in choosing between different providers and rollups. For this purpose, we perform evaluations for two use cases of DApps: a voting DApp with high security demands, suited for L1 deployment, and a cost-sensitive supply chain DApp, where L2 can be an option. We analyze a set of basic metrics by comparing these between two highly used access providers, Alchemy and Infura, for the L1 deployment case, and between two of the most popular rollups, Arbitrum One and OP Mainnet (Optimism), for the L2 deployment scenario.

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