BlockBeats News, on February 4, Steven Goldfeder, co-founder of Off Chain Labs, the development team behind Arbitrum, posted on social media stating:
Arbitrum is not Ethereum. Arbitrum and Ethereum are close allies and have maintained a symbiotic relationship over the past five years. But it is not Ethereum. The view that a scaled L1 and a thriving L2 ecosystem are contradictory is wrong. I have never heard of an L2 team opposing L1 scaling. In fact, Offchain Labs not only supports L1 scaling but also directly contributes to it—by acquiring and continuously funding Prysm to ensure it has sufficient funds and resources to continue Ethereum's development.
Vitalik's "The story of rollups is evolving over time" is correct. However, Ethereum's best path to winning over large institutions is still L2. In fact, Ethereum having L2 is a superpower that allows it to win over institutions for which other L1s simply cannot provide corresponding solutions.
Last Saturday, during the market turmoil, both Arbitrum and Base reached peak processing capacities exceeding 1000 TPS, while Ethereum was at 40 TPS. Ethereum's L1 simply cannot directly handle such transaction volumes, and this is precisely the entire purpose of L2. L1 will not scale to the point where L2 is no longer needed.
It is worth noting that Steven posted on January 3, 2025, stating "Arbitrum is actually Ethereum," and the tweet has not been deleted yet.
BlockBeats previously reported that Ethereum founder Vitalik posted a tweet yesterday stating that as L1 scales on its own and L2 develops slowly, the original vision of Layer 2 and its role in Ethereum are no longer reasonable, and new development paths and positioning are needed.