Ethereum

How do people feel about "strong L2" vs "light L2" as umbrella terms for things with unconditional security (rollups, plasma, channels) vs things with partial security (validiums, pre-confirmations...) that's still better than a multisig?

See discussion:

How do people feel about "strong L2" vs "light L2" as umbrella terms for things with unconditional security (rollups, plasma, channels) vs things with partial security (validiums, pre-confirmations...) that's still better than a multisig?

See discussion:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1747374271717138827

Copying over this diagram from a few months ago:

Proposing to rename "security-favoring" and "scale-favoring" to "strong" vs "light", to be more succinct.

How about "anchored" vs "floating"?

Or "strict" vs "loose".

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

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Currently: WhatsABI

They're both anchored though.

And to me "loose" feels worse than "light"?

Validiums and pre-conf feel more float-y to me (the guarantees of the L1 are not anchored to the transaction, still somewhat ephemeral but may become anchored periodically).

I worry we'll ruin "light" just in time to make light clients actually good/secure to mean that they're less so.