The next phase of the Ethereum will be dominated by powerful economic zones.  

You can see them rising.  

Base, Unichain, Zora = Superchain  

zkSync, Cronos, Lens = Elastichain  

Polygon, Immutable, Ronin = Agglayer

Taiko, Puffer, Spire = Based Ethereum

These economic zones will have seamless integration and unified liquidity - they'll feel borderless.  Each zone will compete and also trade with the others, each specialized in areas where they have a comparative advantage.  

Some rollups will remain independent but many will join an economic zone for the growth and liquidity benefits.  

This combinatorial soup of apps vs apps within chains vs chains within zones vs zones competing and cooperating all within Ethereum will create a fractaled primordial soup of creative destruction that would leave Schumpeter in awe.

this is visionary, and ETH is/will become money as a result of it, not bc it's the starting point. Right now, the digital gas analogy resonates more given the stage we are in.

Economic blocks like the EU have the Euro, so the federated chains of ethereum will have ETH.