Metis Review by Jesse

Introduction

Metis DAO is building an easy-to-use, highly scalable, low-cost, and fully functional Layer 2 framework called Metis Rollup to support the application and business migration to Web 3.0. Its scalable protocol supports all the same use cases as Ethereum, including yield farming, DEX trading, and powering the gig economy. Metis integrates the Decentralized Autonomous Company framework within its Layer 2 infrastructure, making it easy for any developers, builders, or community leaders to build their applications and communities in minutes. It includes easy-to-use tools to help develop, manage, collaborate, and enjoy the network effects of the world’s largest decentralized finance ecosystem, without the costs and bottlenecks normally associated with Ethereum. Metis’ goal is to make transactions on Ethereum affordable and accessible to anyone. Metis is meant to look, feel and behave like Ethereum but cheaper and faster. For developers building on Metis, the goal is to make the transition as seamless as possible. With very few exceptions, existing Solidity smart contracts can run on Metis exactly how they run on Ethereum.

Without turning you into a Solidity developer there are some basic constructs around Layer 1 and Layer 2 that you’ll be required to understand to some degree. On Metis, whenever a contract is deployed to a node it undergoes a process called "safety checking". A step guaranteeing that all the necessary blocked opcodes are correctly transformed into calls. These are then imputed into a special smart contract called the "Execution Manager”. As a result of this process, the easiest (and pretty much the only) way to write contracts for Metis right now is by using a modified version of the Solidity compiler. Through the usage of Canonical Transaction Chains (CTCs), State Commitment Chains (SCCs), and Chain Storage Containers. Metis operates