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.

...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...

<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....

...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...

It also acts as the liquidity layer through InitiaDEX + Enshrined Liquidity, providing fast L2 → L1 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

...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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

...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...

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...

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...

As of Nov 4, 2024, slashing is not yet active....multiple investment products like DeFi strategies and a credit card service, and Swell developing an L2...The possibility for users to actually restaked *from* their preferred L2 directly; for example, this...billions worth of ETH restaked on EL, expecting to receive an extra yield on top of ETH native staking (~4%...