The downstream consequences of ignoring L1 execution are here. Fragmented security, junior assets, and broken UX.
It is time to focus on making mainnet faster and more user-friendly.
Use mainnet. Ethereum L1 is Ethereum.
Can’t help but reflect on how much of this mess is a downstream consequence of the rollup centric roadmap and misconceptions promulgated in the interest of “alignment”.
For years users were told:
- “L2s are just Ethereum”. Except when shit hits the fan we learn L2 assets are very much junior to mainnet
- “Rollups share a security zone”. Only if you use the canonical bridge… which nobody does because the roadmap was launched when the tech was unusable 7 day bridges.
- “Every app needs their own chain”. An explosion of marginal chains exposing a huge surface area of often barely maintained infra. The hack started on a chain with just 47 rsETH. Why does that chain exist?
- “Ethereum is the world’s most economically secure asset”. Now we have a million restaking wrappers each with their own vulnerability surface, many treated as secure as ETH. All to support barely any demand