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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/14/l1scaling.html
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Yes, the arguments are convincing. Even in an L2-oriented Ethereum ecosystem, L1 remains a critical layer, especially for security, censorship resistance, and edge cases like mass exits. The main risk of increasing the L1 gas limit is centralization due to higher node requirements. However, if client technology improvements, EIP-4444, and further optimizations truly enable a 10x scaling of L1 safely, this would bring significant benefits. The question is whether such a level of scaling is realistic in the next 1-2 years without compromising decentralization. But in the long term, the idea makes sense.😎
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