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Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum? | Kyle Samani & Max Resnick vs. David Hoffman & Jill Gunter

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bankless Nation, we’ve got the hottest debate in crypto right now: Are L2s extensions of Ethereum?

On one side, we’ve got Kyle Samani and Max Resnick proposing that the current Ethereum Rollup-Centric Roadmap is off-track. On the other side we’ve got David Hoffman and Jill Gunter defending L2s as successful  extensions of Ethereum.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
8:54 Defending “Extensions of Ethereum”
16:33 Interoperability Standards
25:36 Are L2s Parasitic to Ethereum?
32:37 ETH Economics & Value Accrual
41:30 Solana vs Ethereum L2s
49:09 Closing Thoughts

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RESOURCES

Kyle Samani
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Max Resnick
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Jill Gunter
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think the market demand for producing chains should be just taken as fact in this day and age

0:05.4

we know that there's going to be many many chains that some chain is going to figure out

0:09.4

how to aggregate all the chains some chain is going to figure out how to make these chains have

0:14.1

stronger property rights and composability mechanisms between all these

0:17.8

chains and that one chain is going to incentivize the production and

0:22.3

aggregation of even further chains and that

0:25.3

chain will become money.

0:27.0

Bankless Nation, for those of you who did not make it too permissionless this year

0:33.4

there are some pretty hot conversations that were held over those three days at the

0:37.3

conference the spiciest conversation or debate I should say is what you're going to

0:42.1

here right now it's a debate as to whether or not

0:44.5

Layer 2s are extensions or Ethereum. This debate is between Kyle Salmone and Max Resnick teamed up on the side of

0:51.7

No, Layer 2s are not extensions of

0:53.7

ethereal versus myself and Jill Gunter from espresso on the side of yes

0:59.4

they are extensions of ethereal some people said that this was the panel of

1:04.1

permission lists, not my words, this was a tweet out of the moderator, Westie from

1:08.0

Blockworks. It was also the last panel on the last day of permissionless about

1:12.4

four hours before my fight with

1:14.2

King Warwick and I use this panel to get into war mode in order to prep for the fight and

1:19.4

I definitely think that worked there were also lots of other super hot panels and conversations that were held

1:24.8

throughout permissionless. Ryan's main stage panel with Chris Dixon was

1:28.6

super insightful. I did a Defi main stage with Kane, Stani, and Sam Kazmanian from Frax, co-moderated by Mike Ippolito.

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