Here’s ‘Ethereum’s biggest problem with L2s’ – Polygon CEO
- Blast and Base have heightened competitors throughout the Ethereum L2 house.
- Polygon CEO sees L2 competitors as unhealthy for Ethereum.
Up to now, Ethereum’s [ETH] layer (L2s) ecosystem has been dominated by Arbitrum [ARB] and Optimism [OP].
Nevertheless, the entry of Coinbase L2 answer Base and Blast has heightened additional competitors. Proper now, Optimism is quantity 4 when it comes to Whole Worth Locked (TVL).
Blast and Base are within the second and third spots, with $1.67B and $1.45B in TVL, respectively.
L2s have been designed to reinforce Ethereum scalability, however the house is overheated in the intervening time. In line with Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon [MATIC], the cut-throat competitors in L2 is “Ethereum’s greatest drawback.”
Boiron stated;
“Ethereum’s greatest drawback is cannibalizing itself repeatedly through all L2s competing over devs, customers and liquidity slightly than competing outdoors of the Ethereum ecosystem.”
Ethereum fragmentation drawback
L2s have been Vitalik Buterin’s roadmap to fixing the Ethereum scaling drawback. Nevertheless, the strategy has unintentionally led to liquidity fragmentation walled off from every L2.
Boiron sees the issue as extending to competitors between customers and builders, too. The overheating within the house simply makes it worse.
In line with CoinShares, a digital asset supervisor agency, fixing the Ethereum fragmentation drawback may enhance person expertise, share liquidity, and “bridge-less bridging.”
Some L2s have opted for interoperable roll-up protocols to handle these points. Polygon has its Aggregation Layer (AggLayer), whereas Arbitrum has Orbit as Optimism leverage its Superchain.
Nevertheless, the CoinShares report notes that regardless of these interoperable protocols, the difficulty nonetheless stays as a consequence of totally different technical approaches,
“Interoperability continues to be an issue, primarily fragmentation of liquidity and social coordination.”
Nevertheless, different users are adamant that the aggregation layer may remedy the liquidity fragmentation bit.
