Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Vitalik Stays Cautious Of Overly Advanced Layer 2s

The Ethereum founder thinks it might be “price including some fairly refined L1 options to scale back the code burden of L2s.”

A generally held perception within the blockchain neighborhood is that the design of Layer 1 networks ought to be so simple as doable with out sacrificing performance to reduce the probabilities of crucial bugs and assault vectors for malicious actors. Consequently, scaling options like Layer 2 networks are anticipated to tackle the burden of extra advanced options.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stays unconvinced and took to social media on Wednesday to reiterate his issues over exceedingly sophisticated Layer 2s.

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Buterin went on to level out {that a} Layer 1 blockchain can get well comparatively rapidly from a possible consensus failure however that “folks might completely lose a lot of cash” in case of a crucial bug in a Layer 2 community’s code.