# Settlement Layer & Scaling **Settlement Approach** The protocol deploys critical integrity commitments to guarantee trustless settlement, while offloading execution and matching to a distributed privacy-preserving L2 EVM settlement layer. **Base** The base network will be integrated, because of the efficient and improving network. **Benefits** * High throughput * Confidentiality of order flow * On-chain verifiability * Reduced gas costs **Future Scaling** Alternative scaling layers under evaluation while retaining integrity model. **State Management** * Verifiable state roots * Efficient state transitions * Checkpointing for recovery --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.opaldex.com/core-components/settlement-layer-and-scaling.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.