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L2s suck for user experience, security and fragment the ecosystem. An optimized L1 is much better. For example Fantom's next upgrade will be able to do more than 2000 Tx/s with 1 second finality by optimizing the EVM through superinstructions and caching which is normal to do for VMs but the EVM just has not implemented. Apparently you are able to run a validator on a Raspberry Pi 5. https://blog.fantom.foundation/fantom-foundation-launches-testnet-for-fantom-sonic/

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by Tom (u/plebeius.eth) | 21mo ago
Afaik account abstraction is pretty much the solution to the whole UX problem and it will happen on L2s, notably ZkSync. In theory, if you fix that, bridges become seamless, fragmentation becomes frictionless, all security moves to the L1 and L2s truly start to scale and get adoption. At that point, alt-L1s will have no reason to exist unless they offer some *feature* (visible by users, not some invisible spec like tx throughput/finality) that the L1-L2 ecosystem can't offer. One such feature is extremely low fees in the L1 in spite of decentralization, which seems to be the point of a shitcoin casino type of chain like the BSC, and now SOL. Low gas fees in general is not a feature as ETH sharding will significantly lower the fees (but not at the casino-chain level). Another possible feature might be sidechains/subnets but i'm highly skeptical users will ever care about them.