We’re benchmarking potential increases in gas target per block to understand what implications would be for running Base nodes, in particular how it could increase the minimum hardware requirements

We'll share our findings next week along with steps for how we’ll continue safely scaling Base throughput

My take: L2s should target very different full node requirements than L1, as they inherit L1 security. The correct endgame is lightweight L1 nodes and datacenter L2 nodes.

Importantly, by running an L1 node, users can still verify proofs about the state of the L2, so the end-to-end user flow remains fully trustless.

Ethereum protocol R&D. Admirer of emergent order.

This is a crucial fork in the road, because it significantly alters the way we should govern the L1 EVM:

If L2s will over time diverge from L1 (towards a more advanced "L2 EVM"), L1 EVM can start to ossify.
If L2s and L1 however share a VM forever, we will need to build a shared EVM improvement and governance process.

For anyone curious, I gave a talk about this 2 years ago at Devcon Bogota: https://youtu.be/OyIbuuZIgxo

My main update to that position in the time since has been around the two paths I see for getting there:
single fast EVM or multi-EVM superchain

https://warpcast.com/ansgar.eth/0xd1dbb59c