A group of programmers in the Ethereum ecosystem, acting independently of the Ethereum Foundation, announced the Ethereum R1-development of layer scaling 2 (L2) for the Ethereum network, which does not contain a native token.
According to the announcement, the project is completely based on donations, there is no financing of the project and there are no pre -issued token allocation or management token. The project team wrote on May 1 x post:
“L2s general should be goods-prostate, interchangeable and free from centralized dependencies or risky management. Ethereum R1 is our response to this call-order based on credible neutrality, decentralization and resistance to censorship.”
“Most of today’s L2 works more like the new L1 than the Ethereum scaling solution – private assignments, opaque management and centralized control,” the developers continued.
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The announcement indicates the growing fears in the Ethereum community regarding the current direction of many scaling solutions of layer 2, which some consider to be potentially disappointed with the interests of the basic layer
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The Dencun update in Ethereum in March 2024 significantly reduced the fees for its networks 2. Up to September, revenues from the Ethereum base layer collapsed by 99%.
As a result, the costs of transactions on the basic layer of the Ethereum network fell to the five -year lowest level of USD 0.16 for the transaction in April 2025, due to the lack of demand for a block space on the basic layer.
Ethereum transactions fees are determined by demand and network traffic – higher demand and network traffic translate into higher fees for the basic layer and higher revenues.
While critics still claim that this provides perverse incentives for the 2 -layer network at the expense of the basic layer, the protocols still claim that many Ethereum networks are a feature, not an error.
Anurag Arjun, co -founder of the unififent abstation of the available shawl, told CointeLgraph that the Ethereum of Layer 2 approach gives users a virtually unlimited number of chains with high capacity to choose from, as opposed to a single one -person approach used by monolithic blockades.
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