Ethereum’s Rollup Strategy Is Dead. Vitalik Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud.
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Vitalik Buterin announced that Ethereum's rollup-centric scaling strategy has failed, marking a major strategic shift. Layer 2 networks failed to achieve meaningful decentralization, with most stuck at Stage 0 centralization and monthly active addresses dropping 50% from 58.4M to 30M. Meanwhile, Ethereum's base layer
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The Decentralization MirageEthereum Layer 1 Won the Race It Wasn’t Supposed ToThe New Framework: L2s as a Spectrum, Not ExtensionsThe Technical Path Forward: Native Rollup PrecompilesThe Market Already VotedWhat This Actually MeansThe Ethereum Foundation Context MattersWhat I’m WatchingSort: