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How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?

One of the points that I made in my post two and half years ago on "the Endgame" is that the different future development paths for a blockchain, at least technologically, look surprisingly similar. In both cases, you have a very large number of transactions onchain, and processing them requires (i) a large amount of computation, and (ii) a large amount of data bandwidth.

One of the points that I made in my post two and half years ago on "the Endgame" is that the different future development paths for a blockchain, at least technologically, look surprisingly similar. We could try to make the EVM into a super-VM that covers all possible paradigms, but that would have led to much less effective implementations of each of these concepts than allowing platforms like these to specialize. It's ok if someone can pay a million dollars to revert a record of them losing a chess game, or make one of your twitter posts look like it was published three days after it actually was.

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