Vitalik Buterin Says He Will Only Promote Sufficiently Decentralized Ethereum Layer-2s Starting in 2025
Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin says that starting next year, he will only publicly mention layer-2 projects that he believes are en route to optimal decentralization. Addressing his 5.4 million followers on the social media platform X, Buterin says that in 2025, he plans to only publicly name L2s that are in “stage 1” or above, referencing a previous blog post detailing the different phases of decentralization. In the November 2022 blog post titled “Proposed milestones for rollups taking off training wheels,” Buterin said that L2s are either in stage 0, 1 or 2 in terms of decentralization. Buterin says “stage 1” means the project should have a running fraud-proof or validity-proof scheme, plus certain upgrade requirements and multi-sig overrides. Nearly two years later, Buterin says he only wants to promote L2s in stage 1, regardless of what he has invested in or what his industry friends are working on. “It does...