{"id":551399,"date":"2026-02-04T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/arbitrum-optimism-and-base-weigh-in-after-vitalik-questions-l2-scaling-model\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:53:40","slug":"arbitrum-optimism-and-base-weigh-in-after-vitalik-questions-l2-scaling-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/arbitrum-optimism-and-base-weigh-in-after-vitalik-questions-l2-scaling-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrum, Optimism and Base weigh in after Vitalik questions L2 scaling model"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arbitrum,<\/p>\n

Base\u2019s Jesse Pollak says L2s can\u2019t be \u201cEthereum but cheaper\u201d as builders respond to Vitalik Buterin\u2019s call for specialization.<\/p>\n

Several layer-2 builders responded after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the original vision of L2s as the primary scaling engine \u201cno longer makes sense,\u201d calling for a shift toward specialization.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday post, Buterin argued that many L2s have failed to fully inherit Ethereum\u2019s security<\/a> due to continued reliance on multisig bridges, while the base layer is increasingly capable of handling more throughput via gas-limit increases<\/a> and future native rollups.<\/p>\n

The comments prompted responses from Ethereum layer 2s<\/a>, who broadly agreed that rollups must evolve beyond being cheaper versions of Ethereum but diverged on whether scaling should remain central to their role.<\/p>\n

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Base\u2019s Jesse Pollak says L2s can\u2019t be \u201cEthereum but cheaper\u201d as builders respond to Vitalik Buterin\u2019s call for specialization. Several layer-2 builders responded after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the original vision of L2s as the primary scaling engine \u201cno longer makes sense,\u201d calling for a shift toward specialization. In a Wednesday post, Buterin argued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}