The Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem is likely to continue to evolve through various technological approaches, according to co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Buterin revealed the current view of Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem onbloghis personal There are several Layer 2 protocols with different approaches to bringing greater scalability, lower costs, and increased security.
Buterin emphasized that the launch of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) pioneered by Arbitrum, Optimism , Scroll and Kakarot and Taiko will greatly improve the security of their solutions.
Meanwhile, “sidechain projects” such as Polygon have also developed their own rollup solutions, but Buterin also highlights “almost-EVM” such as zkSync, extensions such as Arbitrum Stylus and zero-knowledge proof pioneer Starknet as key players driving this. Scaling technology for ecosystems
“One of the inevitable consequences is We have seen a trend towards more diverse Layer 2 projects. I expect this trend to continue for a few key reasons.”
Buterin noted that Some existing projects that are currently independent Layer 1 are looking to bring themselves closer to the Ethereum ecosystem and may become a Layer 2 ecosystem as well.
Finally, Buterin addresses non-financial applications such as games and social media platforms that want to be decentralized. But it doesn’t require a high level of security. Buterin emphasized that for social media use cases, different parts of the app must have separate functionality.
“High-value activities such as username registration and account recovery It should be taken as a whole. But low-value, frequent activities such as posts and votes There needs to be less security.”
Buterin also noted that The costs associated with paying Rollup fees may not be acceptable to non-Blockchain users, as Blockchain users were previously accustomed to paying much higher prices for on-chain interactions.
The Ethereum co-founder then delves into the trade-offs between different solutions and systems that offer different scalability to the ecosystem: “Connecting” to Ethereum depends on the security of withdrawals to Ethereum from Layer 2 and the security of reading data from the Ethereum blockchain.
“High security is important for some applications. While some applications require something more independent in exchange for greater scalability.”
Ethereum’s next hard fork is set to introduce EIP-4844, commonly known as “proto-dank sharding,” which is expected to help increase the amount of data availability on the network. Buterin noted that the compression improvements will provide better functionality.
refer : cointelegraph.com
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