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Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
nks to Justin Drake, Francesco, Hsiao-wei Wang, @antonttc and Georgios Konstantopoulos At the beginning, Ethereum had two scaling strategies in its roadmap. One (eg.
This is a pattern that recurs everywhere in society: the court system (L1) is not there to be ultra-fast and efficient, it's there to protect contracts and property rights, and it's up to entrepreneurs (L2) to build on top of that sturdy base layer and take humanity to (metaphorical and literal) Mars. Data availability sampling has a nuanced few-of-N trust model, but it preserves the fundamental property that non-scalable chains have, which is that even a 51% attack cannot force bad blocks to get accepted by the network. An example of pathologically bad (and even dangerous: I personally lost $100 to a chain-selection mistake here) cross-L2 UX - though this is not Polymarket's fault, cross-L2 interoperability should be the responsibility of wallets and the Ethereum standards (ERC) community.
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