In this episode of the Dirty Digg podcast, host Dirt Diggler chats with Neel from Eclipse about building an Ethereum rollup using Solana's parallelized virtual machine.

Topics discussed include:

- Neel's background working at Airbnb, Citadel, and what sparked his interest in crypto
- An overview of how Eclipse works - using Solana SVM for parallelization while settling transactions on Ethereum for security
- Contrasting Eclipse with pure L1 designs like Solana in areas like data availability and state verification
- Eclipse's goals of tapping into Ethereum's network effects and assets while leveraging Solana's throughput
- How Eclipse ensures decentralization and chain safety without using a governance token
- When rollups can and can't enable advanced on-chain computation like machine learning
- The pros and cons of different layer 2 architectures and tradeoffs compared to L1s
- Upcoming plans and timelines for Eclipse's testnet, audits, and mainnet launch

This deep dive provides perspective on the key technical decisions and philosophy behind building Eclipse as a hybrid rollup solution bridging Solana and Ethereum.