There are ‘lighter’ alternatives to Ethereum L3s – Vitalik Buterin

• Polygon’s chief had initially referred to as L3s an “Ethereum safety danger.”
• Buterin maintained that there have been “lighter” choices for L3s. 

The dialog on the necessity for Ethereum [ETH] L3s hasn’t cooled off. Now, Vitalik Buterin has voiced his tackle the L3 dialogue, including to the variety of opponents of the three-layered structure. 

For perspective, the dialogue emerged after Degen Chain, an L3 on Base, recorded explosive progress lower than every week after its debut. 

Polygon [MATIC] CEO Marc Boiron described L3s as an “Ethereum security risk” and underscored how they might devalue ETH. 

Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin, has added his tackle the dialogue, stating that there are “lighter” options to L3s. 

“There are different, probably “lighter,” methods to get the identical price financial savings that you just get from L3s.”

Opposition to Ethereum L3s

Buterin’s place on L3s hasn’t modified. In 2017, he expressed his reservations a few three-layered structure with the identical scaling scheme.

“A 3-layer scaling structure that consists of stacking the identical scaling scheme on high of itself typically doesn’t work nicely.”

Nonetheless, Buterin acknowledged that L3s can “scale back some mounted prices of batch publishing and deposits/withdrawals.” Sadly, they don’t enhance transaction throughput. 

As an alternative, Buterin championed “lighter” cryptographic instruments generally known as SNARKs (Succinct, Non-interactive Arguments of Data).

He believed that SNARKs may effectively handle no matter L3s try to resolve. 

Cem Ozer of Sovereign Labs had the identical sentiments, emphasizing,

“The advanced hierarchy (three-layered structure) is totally pointless.”

Equally, Sreeram Kannan, founding father of Eigen Layer, reiterated Ozer’s and Buterin’s inclination. He noted that L2s can talk with one another with out the necessity for L3s. 

 “Do we’d like L3s? Direct L2 to L2 interplay can occur in some ways.”

The above dialogue exhibits an excessive amount of warmth for L3s. It stays to be seen whether or not L3s will survive the onslaught.