Community Defends Vitalik’s Layer 2s Stance by Addressing Misconceptions in Roadmap
Hassan, a Cryptonews.com journalist with 6+ years of experience in Web3 journalism, brings deep knowledge across Crypto, Web3 Gaming, NFTs, and Play-to-Earn sectors. His work has appeared in...
The Ethereum community has recently defended Vitalik Buterin’s vision for Layer 2 (L2) solutions amid rising criticism. Detractors have claimed that L2s were misaligned with Ethereum’s core principles and diverged from the intended roadmap.
In response, Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder took to social media to refute these claims by revisiting Buterin’s 2020 rollup-centric roadmap.
A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap:https://t.co/11vxsD0XsJ
The debate around L2s and their role within Ethereum has been heating up, fueled by concerns that these scaling solutions are deviating from the broader vision laid out for Ethereum.
Goldfeder addressed three main criticisms leveled against L2s: that they are not indeed Ethereum because they compete with each other, that L2 tokens and the collection of fees and MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) are misaligned with Ethereum’s principles, and that L2s should not support decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, which critics argue should remain on Ethereum’s mainnet.
Claim 1: L2s aren't Ethereum because they compete with one another. Since Arbitrum is not Base, they cannot both be Ethereum.
Wrong! To quote Vitalik, it's okay (actually good!) for Ethereum to consist of several "islands" that are unique yet still part of a greater Ethereum pic.twitter.com/pps266T2EK
Goldfeder’s first rebuttal targeted the claim that L2s cannot be considered part of Ethereum because they operate as distinct entities like Arbitrum and Base. Critics argued that this competition between L2s suggests fragmentation rather than
Read more on cryptonews.com
