{"id":10921,"date":"2024-02-22T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-advocates-for-simplifying-layer-2-solutions\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:13:34","slug":"vitalik-buterin-advocates-for-simplifying-layer-2-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-advocates-for-simplifying-layer-2-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Advocates for Simplifying Layer 2 Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has voiced concerns about the &#8220;complexity&#8221; of Layer 2 solutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honestly I&#8217;m about 3x less confident in the &#8220;simplify L1 even at the expense of more complicated L2s&#8221; concept than I was five years ago. The challenge is that when you can trade off between L1 bug risk and L2 bug risk, it&#8217;s not actually clear that the latter is better!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1760449291951423576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I&#8217;m about three times less confident in the concept of simplifying &#8216;L1 at the expense of more complex L2s&#8217; than five years ago,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Buterin called for a balanced development of different layers to mitigate risks and prevent bugs.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, an L1 blockchain can recover relatively quickly from a consensus failure, but errors in L2 networks pose risks of irreversible loss of funds for users.<\/p>\n<p>Offering an alternative approach, Buterin suggested adding more complex features to first-layer networks. This would reduce the burden on scaling solutions, allowing them to remain &#8220;fairly simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Ethereum co-founder identified ZK-Rollups as the primary L2 network expected to surpass Optimistic Rollups.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, Buterin published an essay recalling the Plasma technology and discussing its application in current scenarios. He proposed using the solution alongside ZK-SNARK.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, he highlighted the advantages of Verkle trees for blockchain scaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has voiced concerns about the &#8220;complexity&#8221; of Layer 2 solutions. Honestly I&#8217;m about 3x less confident in the &#8220;simplify L1 even at the expense of more complicated L2s&#8221; concept than I was five years ago. The challenge is that when you can trade off between L1 bug risk and L2 bug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1179,200],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}