Ethereum Has More Layers Than An Onion

Two years ago I thought Ethereum had just a layer, until I wanted to transfer Ethereum and I was given two options, ETH mainnet or BSC chain. So technically I thought to myself, they are to chains you can have ETH, made sense there is a BSC chain ETH which makes transferring ETH cheaper. ETH has always had that gas fee issues, because it cost a lot to transact on the chain. I started my crypto airdrop journey and I was given a task to transact on the Arbitrum chain with arbitrum ETH, I was confused because I had never heard of arbitrum before. Did my research and found out that there is another Ethereum layer 2 that is built to be scalable, did more research and found out about the optimism chain too. I used these chains and they were nice, they were way faster and cheaper than the native ETH.

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I thought it was going to stop there, but guess what, in a space of 18 months they have been extra layers of ETH, we have a layer 3 that is a second layer of arbitrum making it a third layer of ETH mainnet. The layer 3 is XAI. There are more layer 2s coming up, we have seen extra like Manta, Zora, Blast, Polygon ZKEVM, Mode, Linea, Base and Many more. Ethereum has upgraded its system multiple times and every time the system gets upgraded, we usually hope that it will affect the ETH mainnet gas fee issue not just the other layers. Although I am grateful for the other layers, because transacting on the Linea chain was very expensive few months ago.

It’s crypto, its technology is limitless, the technology is being built daily, technology is getting developed. But do we need all that layers? Are they really all that necessary? Although we know that most of these projects build on Ethereum because of its security, but then it’s a decentralized space, someone can also come up with a better security.

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