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There is a fundamental tension here that the cheap blobs surfaced: "EVM equivalent" L2s have similar bottlenecks to L1, but might want to be significantly more ambitious around e.g. throughput. In that case, waiting for L1 to solve these bottlenecks might not work, as L1 is happy at current levels.

What's the throughput ceiling of an unmodified, L1-equivalent EVM?

Clearly much higher than OPstack, which targets 1.5m gas/s today. Higher than Polygon at ~8m gas/s. And yes, lower than a hypothetical thruput-optimized modified VM.

But is it 10m? 100m? 1b?

What's the throughput ceiling of an unmodified, L1-equivalent EVM?

Clearly much higher than OPstack, which targets 1.5m gas/s today. Higher than Polygon at ~8m gas/s. And yes, lower than a hypothetical thruput-optimized modified VM.

But is it 10m? 100m? 1b?

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I think those are the right questions to ask! We should get serious about identifying the bottlenecks and better understanding to what extent they are technological or architectural challenges.

Also more precisely define the types of participants and their respective resource envelopes (e.g. data center sequencer).

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One day the entire data center will be the sequencer and you will be happy