bad-takes

Tell me why I'm wrong: 

Ethereum L1 or L2 gas fees make micropayments too expensive for everyday consumer apps. 

Less frequent payments? Sure. But 10x a day? No.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Validiums/volitions make fees as cheap as you want to subsidize offchain (can be as cheap as warps), basically off-chain DA transactions that get settled on-chain occasionally.

There's a few prod examples today (starkware mainly), I agree it's less accessible than say... "just use Base"

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Though main point is that it's not a fundamental tech limitation, more of an implementation issue. In 100 years, we won't care about this (we'll have zk/optimistic hybrids with volition transactions that we can choose on a per-transaction basis, whatever security is required for the app).

For more on production validiums (some operating since 2021): https://starkware.co/starkex/

Some of them don't charge gas fees at all (e.g. dydx), just subsidize it entirely.

Also, I'm not convinced we'll even need validiums for sub-cent transactions. Danksharding + state diff rollups can get us there too. I do like the idea of volitions because they're kinda more generalized Plasma constructions (can do a bunch of stuff off-chain, then aggregate to on-chain, with some guarantees).