Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron believes that the extreme rivalry between Ethereum layer-2 networks is the “greatest drawback” dealing with the second-largest digital asset by market capitalization.
In an April 7 submit on social media platform X, Boiron emphasised how the competitors between these networks has led to Ethereum cannibalizing itself repeatedly. He defined:
“Ethereum’s greatest drawback is cannibalizing itself repeatedly by way of all L2s competing over devs, customers and liquidity somewhat than competing exterior of the Ethereum ecosystem. Microeconomics 101 would inform you it is a unhealthy technique. I don’t have the reply nevertheless it must be addressed.”
A number of crypto group members share Boiron’s perspective, asserting that Layer 2 networks ought to goal these exterior the Ethereum ecosystem. Karthik Senthil, the enterprise companion at crypto hedge fund Lattice, mentioned:
“L2s solely develop into profitable in the event that they meaningfully develop the pie and appeal to the 99% of stuff (web2 included) that’s exterior Ethereum at present. If we struggle over the identical folks which can be already right here, nobody is profitable something.”
Notably, Boiron reposted a social media submit that urged the layer-2 networks to play the long-term sport and “champion one another wins.” The submit reads:
“As fragmentation and chain abstraction will quickly be solved, L2s ought to reshape their views on the worth of siphoning apps from one L2 to the opposite. Quickly a profitable software on x-L2 will present a proportion uplift in worth to y-L2 . Stealing purposes is a cannibalization of that worth.”
In the meantime, some group members argued that the competitors amongst layer-2s might in the end improve Ethereum’s ecosystem.
Layer-2s recognition
Layer-2s are blockchain networks designed to reinforce Ethereum’s scalability. Over the previous years, they’ve gained vital recognition and adoption throughout the crypto ecosystem.
Information from L2Beat reveals that the networks cumulatively course of 123 transactions per second, surpassing Ethereum’s mainchain by an element of 10.7. For context, Coinbase’s high-flying Base community and Arbitrum, the biggest layer2 blockchain, recorded larger transactions per second than Ethereum mainnet up to now day.
Moreover, originally of this month, the variety of lively wallets using the networks surpassed 5 million. On the similar time, the entire worth of belongings locked on these platforms has exceeded $42 billion, and there are indications that the development might proceed.
