PANews reported on April 2 that Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang wrote on the X platform that taxing Ethereum Layer2 is a major cancer for the future development of Ethereum. This short-sighted behavior sacrifices long-term scalability and ecosystem growth for short-term revenue, which is the practice of centralized companies and not the choice of neutral platforms. Measuring the value of ETH by only looking at Ethereum revenue is putting the cart before the horse. The real value of ETH lies in the fact that it has become the core of thousands of rollup ecosystems, which is the way out in the future.
Solana takes the vertical integration route. Although SOL dominates its system, it is strictly controlled and has limited scalability. ETH has emerged on platforms such as Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, and Scroll, and is still the main trading pair of DEX even on non-gas token chains. More rollups mean higher adoption of ETH, and ETH as a store of value (SoV) will gain more trust and use. Each Layer2 aligned with Ethereum is expanding its territory and enhancing social consensus. The potential for thousands of scalable rollups centered on ETH far exceeds that of any single chain.
Ethereum does not need to be exploited, but should be empowered: 1. Accelerate deployment, expand the data block size 1,000 times, and improve the scalability of the execution layer; 2. Make Ethereum's data availability (DA) more attractive, and provide interoperability, shared components, liquidity bridges and other added value beyond security; 3. Empower more participants who are in line with the Ethereum concept. ETH's victory lies in becoming a center of gravity, not a toll booth. "
