Marek Olszewski

As a chain that transitioned from an L1 to an L2, I'm just surprised when anyone launches an EVM-compatible alt L1.

I think those days should be long behind us.

I think if you're launching an EVM chain, you should launch it as an L2.

I think if Tempo is successful, it will transition to become an L2.

I mean, Ethereum is continuing to be, you know, just a place for DeFi, right?

Yeah.

It's, they just, it doesn't matter how much any other kind of AltL1 is trying to compete, you know, liquidity continues to go to Ethereum.

And with the AltL scaling centric roadmap,

Now there is just a way for any chain, you don't have to be EVM compatible, but if you're EVM compatible, it's even more of a no-brainer to tap into both the liquidity, but also into the network effects that Ethereum has formed around all of the L2s that have been created.

And I think maybe right now it doesn't feel like being in L2 gives you that much because we don't yet have incredible interop between L2s or between mainnet and L2s.

But that's going to be solved in the next year or two, right?

I think increasingly all of the effort on lowering block times, on reducing finality on Ethereum,

Coupled with all of the amazing ZK tech innovation will effectively be mean that all L2s will be able to, you know, fully validate their chains on Ethereum and have, you know, like six second finality.

And that means that you'll be able to send messages between Ethereum and these L2s and between L2s and other L2s.

And that means you'll be able to send a lot of this liquidity that exists today in the ecosystem.

So to me, it just seems such a no-brainer.

I mean, it's one reason why we worked so hard on adding ZKT to Celo last month.

I think you guys talked about this in one of your shows.

Celo had its fourth hard fork of the year.

We really had quite an incredible year last year.