# Persistent Rollups

Persistent rollups offered by AltLayer are standard optimistic rollups except that they application-specific and both EVM & WASM compatible.

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Persistent rollups are ideal for long-lived applications such as:&#x20;

* GameFi
* SocialFi
* MetaFi
* DeFi