Why Ethereum rollups are built to outlast other blockchains.

Rostyk.eth posted a tweet about an advantage that Ethereum rollups have over most of the existing L1's. That advantage is Ethereum rollups do not need inflation to exist. Most L1 chains have to mint new tokens to pay to validators, causing permanent selling pressure on the already existing tokens and making the costs of maintaining a secure L1 endless. Rollups benefit from Ethereum's security so they eliminate the need to create additional inflation on supply or bribe validators. This structural choice is very important long-term.

Since rollups settle on Ethereum they benefit from the most battle-tested base layer in crypto. Ethereum takes care of consensus, security and finality while rollups focus on execution and user experience. Each layer has a role and each does one job very well. This also makes rollups more resilient because they can scale without losing decentralization or uptime and they do not collapse if token prices crash. Their security does not depend on market hype.

Rostyk's tweet is about the core of Ethereum's strategy. Instead of competing with dozens of fragile L1's Ethereum lets rollups compete on products and not monetary policy. In long-term sustainable systems are going to win and Ethereum rollups are built that way.

Source: https://x.com/rostyketh/status/2005954017122193534