Ethereum

Reasonable point by Anatoly, but of course that's what Ethereum's L2-centric approach is about:

Any user should be able to frequently and trustlessly (!) use L2s. Trustless means it must be affordable to run an L1 full node and L2 lightclients.

Reasonable point by Anatoly, but of course that's what Ethereum's L2-centric approach is about:

Any user should be able to frequently and trustlessly (!) use L2s. Trustless means it must be affordable to run an L1 full node and L2 lightclients.

https://x.com/aeyakovenko/status/1820288161769202141

Ethereum protocol R&D. Admirer of emergent order.

There is a way for Solana to get there as well: By eventually turning itself into an L2 (on top of an existing chain like Ethereum, or by creating their own sovereign settlement layer).

It's absolutely possible that the Solana approach (good UX first, fundamentals (hopefully) later) ends up beating Ethereum's.

Now, realistically most Ethereum (L1 or L2) user interactions are not trustless either. That is a very real challenge for the ecosystem: At every step, we made sure that trustless interactions remain architecturally possible. But we have yet to make use of that by having trustlessness as the default interaction mode.

HW expenses (c3.large or equivalent): 400-500 USD/month
Data egress (100 TB @ aws rates): 8000 USD/month

That's 100K/year in expenses. I don't know who would spend that much in gas fees.

Exactly Ethereum's L2-centric approach is designed to make trustless transactions accessible to all, ensuring that decentralization and security aren't compromised for scalability. Affordable L1 full nodes and L2 lightclients are the keys to unlocking a truly democratized ecosystem in my opinion