Been using Ethereum for years and I'm happy with the roadmap, but L2s are starting to feel like their own isolated islands. Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, ZkSync , each has its own liquidity, its own bridges, its own quirks.
I get that they scale the network, but moving between them still feels clunky. Sometimes I wonder if we're solving one problem (fees on mainnet) while creating another (fragmentation).
Curious how others see this. Are we heading toward a unified L2 experience or is this just how it's going to be?
Is Ethereum L2 fragmentation actually getting worse?
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Posted by Hour-Border6561
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Each has an incentive to put up walls. Attract users and ensure they do most of their transactions on that chain. It’s business.
I felt the opposite a bit because of the centralised burn on one chain + mint on the other for zero relative fees and only few minute delay. But now that ethereum fees are negligible it’s worth moving everything to ethereum.
The UX for L2s is still bad. Feels like we’re not there yet.
I think fragmentation is fine as long as there’s good bridging infrastructure.