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Scaling ETH L1: Is 100x Enough?
A recent proposal (EIP-9698) by Dankrad was made to exponentially raise the gas limit on the L1....: risk destroying the value prop for L2s Don’t scale the L1: risk the L1 failing and ETH becoming worthless...“Scaling the L1 will rug the rollups”. Yes, it will. But to a degree....this subject as it pertained to scaling the L1 even in a rollup-centric world.
8 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2025
Keeta Network - Vaporware or The Next Big L1?
...is much to unpack on the technical side and some early indications that Keeta could be the next big L1...overview of Keeta Network, explore some features and use cases that make it more than just another L1...time (sub-second), whereas a network like Solana often targets ~2–3 second confirmation and Ethereum L1...
13 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2025
Let It Happen - Market Update 5/4/2025
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> As promised – yet another market update video....
1 Min
Macro & Markets
May 2025
Tariff Tantrums - Market Update 4/9/2025
We will be hosting a live stream at 2:30pm EST today (Wed, April 9th). We will go around the table discussing the ongoing tariff situation enveloping the global macroeconomic landscape in the afterma...
1 Min
Macro & Markets
Apr 2025
ZKsync & The Elastic Network Endgame
Block Building The L2 blocks are significantly smaller, containing fewer transactions, than the L1 blocks...After producing a number of L2 blocks, they are chained together to form a single L1 block which is then...Batch overhead, expenses associated with proving each batch, include both L1 costs and L2 costs.
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
It also acts as the liquidity layer through InitiaDEX + Enshrined Liquidity, providing fast L2L1 token..., the L2 INIT → L1 INIT transfer happens via Minitswap, working like a standard IBC transfer....Minitswap— Since L2 INIT (INITx) isn’t directly usable on L1, it’s instantly swapped for native INIT...
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025
The Fat App Thesis: An Inflection Point in Value Accrual
...up with this demand. cc @MaxResnick1 @DavideCrapis since… — jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) September 4,...Jon Charbonneau has a good primer for further context on the topic: https://dba.xyz/l1-l2-token-value-capture...Take L2 tokens for example.....” ~ John Maynard Keynes Crypto markets have a tendency to act irrational quite often – L1/L2 valuations...
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Livin' On A Prayer? - Market Update 4/6/2025
As promised – yet another market update video as the dust begins to settle in the aftermath of “Liberation Day”. It certainly promises to be a big week. If you have any questions, please comment bel...
3 Min
Macro & Markets
Apr 2025
MegaETH: Performance to Compete With TradFi
...allows these institutions to make trades is an important ingredient for a smart contract platform. 4/...The difference between disk and RAM access is 3-4 orders of magnitude, which directly translates to reduced...Apps that move their users to their own L2 or L1 in a zero sum way are obviously moving revenue of the...L1.
21 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2025
EVM Wars: Between Giga Gas and Giga Gimmicks
Ethereum is slowly but progressively increasing the L1 gas limit....second by 2025, Fuel’s new Redacted project aims to reach giga gas throughput with 150K TPS, Sei, an L1...We have 4 rollups taking up over 85% of the blob space....For 2025 we need Fusaka on L1 with PeerDAS, ideally with 48/72 blob target/limit Let’s aim to get a Fusaka...
13 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2025
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
2024 Lastly, you should note that the chains in this section are a mix of L1/L2 and monolithic/modular...rollup roadmap: theory – issue assets on eth l1, bridge to l2. can escape hatch back to L1 if needed...Ethereum L1 hasn’t increased block gas limits since 4 years ago.
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
ZKsync & Elastic Network's Q1 Wrapped: Ecosystem & Development Highlights
ZKsync Era is an L2 zkEVM leveraging ZK proofs to scale efficiently....And Era laid the foundation of the Elastic Network, since the ZKsync L1 bridge contract was reconfigured...is onchain and borderless, WonderFi Labs is spearheading the strategic pivot to build the WonderFi L2...
19 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Avalanche L1s: Powering the Future of Appchains
Examples like Uniswap (Unichain L2) and dYdX (dYdX L1) come to mind....Validators are now managed independently by each L1....All staking-related operations for the Avalanche L1 are handled by the L1’s validator manager....Any assets on the Avalanche L1 will be solely under the purview of the L1.
22 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
Celestia’s value prop is: “We already scaled the L1....If they increase blobs at the same rate they’ve increased the gas limit (flat for ~4 years), then they...If Celestia becomes the default infra for 50% of all L2 throughput in the near future, that’s a massive...Base doesn’t talk to Arbitrum natively because Ethereum L1 is too slow.
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Shortcuts To Scale: How Enso Seeks To Reshape dApp Development
Misaligned Economic Incentives: The L1/L2 Premium Beyond technical hurdles, the economic incentives themselves...Market dynamics consistently reward infrastructure over applications, with launching an L1 or L2 chain...Consider the pattern: Uniswap launched an L2, Ethena is building an L1, and dYdX migrated to its own...
31 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has been a category definer, powering Ethereum and many of crypto’s biggest L1...and L2  protocols, as well as the apps built on top of them....The hardware needs for running the node is just 4 CPU cores and 8GB of RAM, so anyone can run nodes from...or L2.
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
MON Protocol - Primed for IP Expansion
...be confirmed), all in-game payments would unlock discounts when using the token on an external web page...been well received overall, the current build remains incredibly unstable and likely needs another 2-4...In this context, the Conversion Rate (CR) measures the ratio of users who land on the Playstore page...
16 Min
Gaming
Apr 2025
Inside the Ecosystem: Fueling Aptos' Global Trading Engine
Recently, the network recorded industry-leading L1 block times as fast as 122 milliseconds. ...With a ~45% reduction in latency from 220 ms to under 125 ms today, Aptos is currently the fastest L1...and Morph Becoming the trusted aggregation layer for native BTC, wrapped BTC, BTC LSTs, and Bitcoin L2...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
The Year Ahead for DeFi 2025
PayPal and Coinbase also offer native yield of 4-5% for idle cash....They sit on two of the most decentralized L1 blockchains outside of Ethereum and add minimal trust assumptions...Hyperliquid built a highly performant L1 for hosting an onchain order book that can handle about 200k...
72 Min
DeFi
Dec 2024
The Year Ahead for Markets 2025
For context, that’s equivalent to ~4% of US GDP and ~20% of the USG’s total revenue in FY 2024....If an investor can clip 4%-5% in risk free markets, they are less likely to take on more speculative...not be the future of france. — ceteris (@ceterispar1bus) November 1, 2024 Ethereum and its fragmented L2...Dydx [$1B] 4. Wormhole [$1B] 5.
90 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2024