Margaux Nijkerk reports on the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds a small amount of ETH and other altcoins.
Starting with just a handful of pioneers a few years ago led by Arbitrum and Optimism, there's been a rapid multiplication of layer-2 networks atop Ethereum, designed to provide an alternate venue for executing transactions, usually cheaper and faster. The trackingThat's the backdrop for why Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, the main developer firm behind the ZKsync layer-2 protocol, sees fragmentation as the next big challenge the blockchain space needs to tackle.
Other layer-2 competitors like Polygon and Optimism have come out with their own versions of solving this, including Polygon’sBut just as the race between layer-2s using zero-knowledge proofs heated up, the next will be between projects offering their interoperability solutions. Part of the reason why so many chains have popped up over the last few years is because these companies have made it so easy for developers to clone their technology and build their own networks based on their tech.Now, the goal is for all these chains to be more interconnected, so instead of feeling like users are transacting across many chains, it feels like one singular chain.
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