SSV Network has announced the release of Compose, a system that has been framed as a response to the fragmentation created by Ethereum’s rollup-centric scaling model. The initiative is intended to restore lost network effects and enhance user experience by enabling synchronous composability across rollups through validator participation. The network suggested that Compose would function as connective tissue that re-aligns Ethereum rollups under a shared trust and execution model.
Since launch, SSV Network has been building infrastructure native to Ethereum. Its Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), introduced two years ago, is now considered a key standard in the staking domain and is used by leading staking aggregators and exchanges. DVT distributes validator duties to mitigate single-machine failures and centralization threats and has been adopted to reduce risk in legacy validator architectures. Rough estimates indicate that nearly fourteen percent of Ethereum validators now run on SSV, collectively safeguarding more than five million ETH.
7/ Compose isn’t just about faster transactions.
It’s about restoring the Ethereum experience, where everything works together again.
Atomic. Synchronous. Instant. Composable.
That’s the future we’re building at: https://t.co/kpCPQYufUA
— SSV Network (@ssv_network) October 22, 2025
Compose designed as a bApp to route value back to validators
Compose is described as a Based Application, built on top of Ethereum’s validator set to mitigate fragmentation. It uses a Shared Publisher design to supply synchronous composability across rollups and to create new fee flows for validators participating in the system. In effect, the mechanism aims to replicate the atomic execution environment of Ethereum’s L1 DeFi stack — the so-called Lego-style composability — without bridges or wrapped substitutes.
Welcome to Compose Network.
A new layer connecting Ethereum’s rollups for instant, atomic interaction.
Built on SSV’s validator infrastructure.
Here’s everything you need to know. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/enGgV44PG0
— Compose Network (@ComposeNetwork) October 21, 2025
By enabling validators to capture additional yield from cross-rollup composability operations, Compose repositioned them as providers of multiple services instead of single-purpose consensus actors. The architecture channels interoperability fees back toward validators and to Ethereum rather than to intermediaries such as custodial bridges. Validators continue to accrue ETH staking returns alongside these new revenues, reinforcing their economic incentives within the base protocol.
DAO-backed rollout expected to deepen validator economics
Compose is owned and operated under the SSV DAO. The organization expects that the system will expand validator revenue options and simultaneously strengthen the DAO’s treasury. Because SSV Network is viewed as the second-largest staking supplier in Ethereum by share, market participants anticipate that the effort may increase institutional appetite for ETH staking strategies routed through SSV infrastructure.
SSV Network reiterated its stated objective of reinforcing Ethereum by acting through the validator layer. The introduction of Compose is being presented as a strategic advance designed to interconnect disparate regions of the Ethereum ecosystem without compromising decentralization or trust guarantees. With fragmentation widely cited as a structural drawback of the rollup era, the project signals a bid to re-aggregate liquidity and user flows around a validator-aligned, Ethereum-native solution.