Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, advocates for optimising layer 1 security and decentralisation capabilities to streamline the way builders develop Layer 2.
In a recent X post, Buterin commented on the take on how alternative Layer 1s will eventually become overtime for Layer 2s. The co-founder of Ethereum (ETH) believes that on-chain builders should learn to “lean towards L1 products” to maximize L2.
According to Buterin, developers should stop trying to rebuild everything from scratch. Instead, L2 builders should take advantage of the L1 strengths of Ethereum. These features include security, censorship resistance, proof, and data availability.
By offloading these responsibilities to Ethereum’s layer1 technology, future L2Ss can remain lightweight and robust, in contrast to overcomplicating them.
“We reduce the logic to be mere sequencer and prover (in the case of the bases, simply scorer) for core execution,” Badderin said in his post.
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He believes that L2S should minimize its complexity and focus on the order of transactions by sequence and generating encrypted proofs such as ZK proofs and fraud proofs to generate encrypted proofs that indicate that the transaction is valid.
“This is a combination of trust minimization and efficiency that the enterprise blockchain crew wanted in the 2010s, but we couldn’t achieve it,” Buterin said, adding that the Ethereum L2S can do that.
Vitalik Buterin on Decentralization
Aside from simplicity and decentralization, Vitalik Buterin also highlighted the real-world advantage of using Ethereum L1 to build the L2.
“If something in L2 doesn’t work, we’ve already seen successful examples of L1’s capabilities to protect users’ rights,” continued Buterin.
Earlier this month, at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, Vitalik Buterin called for fake decentralization in many crypto projects. He observed that many startups build distributed applications on centralized front-ends, called “strawhouses.”
Additionally, Buterin pointed out a number of tests to see if the app was really built to be safe and decentralized. One of them was the Walkaway test. This showed whether the app would work if the core team disbanded.
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