The Ethereum Foundation's Platform team outlines an updated vision for the relationship between Ethereum L1 and L2 chains. The document argues that L1's role is to serve as a maximally resilient, permissionless hub for settlement, liquidity, and DeFi, while L2s should focus on differentiation, customization, and extending Ethereum's core properties to more users. Key recommendations for L2s include pursuing Stage 2 trustlessness, synchronous composability, and transparency about security properties. The EF commits to scaling L1 and blobs without sacrificing decentralization, investing in native rollup technology, improving cross-layer liquidity, and addressing ecosystem fragmentation through better interoperability solutions.
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On the L1 + L2 relationshipWhat are the roles of L1 and L2s, and how can they work together?What does this mean for L2s going forwardWhat the EF is doing to help build that world:Sort: