POPA Recon🔷 How Ethereum Upgrades Affected L2s
🔷 How Ethereum Upgrades Affected L2s The original idea was simple: L2s were supposed to be "branded shards" of Ethereum — external execution layers inheriting L1 security. But now L1 is already scaling on its own: 1️⃣ Fees are low 2️⃣ GasLimit continues to grow 3️⃣ Many L2s are unable or unwilling to become fully trustless. "If you're building an EVM at 10,000 TPS where the connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, you are not scaling Ethereum." © Vitalik Buterin This is a very important point. In practice, many rollups are separate networks with a bridge to Ethereum, not an e…
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