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...

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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...The L1/L2 trade however, is saturated. The low-float, high-FDV sentiment is indicative of this.

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.

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...

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...

...rollup roadmap: theory – issue assets on eth l1, bridge to l2. can escape hatch back to L1 if needed...practice – issue asset on l2, trade it on another l1 through a third party PoA bridge — ceteris (@ceterispar1bus...prioritizing fee markets and consensus implementations where I… — Max Resnick (@MaxResnick1) December 9,...

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.

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....’s Ecosystem The existing app ecosystem on Fuel is very similar to what one would expect from a new L1...or L2.

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...For 2025 we need Fusaka on L1 with PeerDAS, ideally with 48/72 blob target/limit Let’s aim to get a Fusaka...But that is the time most high throughput L2 teams do not have to spare.

These are supposed to bring innovation and add functionalities which are not possible on the L1....Apps that move their users to their own L2 or L1 in a zero sum way are obviously moving revenue of the...L1....MegaETH is not trying to be another generic general-purpose L2.

...be confirmed), all in-game payments would unlock discounts when using the token on an external web page...Session lengths averaged 6.5 minutes compared to the top mobile game benchmark of 8-9 minutes, reinforcing...In this context, the Conversion Rate (CR) measures the ratio of users who land on the Playstore page...

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...

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...

Blobs are capped at 3/block currently, with plans to increase them to 6/9 in the next hardfork....Celestia’s value prop is: “We already scaled the L1....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.

In fact, Fed liquidity has been steadily falling for the last 9-10 months....Then go fuck off. — SBF (@SBF_FTX) January 9, 2021 SOL ran from $1 to $260 — in one year (!)...not be the future of france. — ceteris (@ceterispar1bus) November 1, 2024 Ethereum and its fragmented L2...

...which has since seen significant growth since it launched its mainnet on August 9, 2023....This has increased Baseʼs market share from .67% to 9%....The rise in tokenized treasuries has mainly been on the Ethereum L1, surpassing $1.5B. ...However, Base is not the only L2 where users are seeing reduced fees.

Stack, Orbit) but mostly deployed lookalike rollups with little customization and weak alignment to L1...Ecosystem Design and Incentives Initia L1: coordination + enshrined infra (DA, messaging, liquidity,...Rollups submit blobs to L1; can be challenged, rolled back if malicious....Users vote (Gauge system) → align L1 + L2 incentives.

This leniency and laziness all changed post 9/11, when the USA PATRIOT Act was passed. ....portion to ensure that the user isn’t lying about the content, all without seeing any portions of the page...