Odaily Planet News: vitalik.eth posted on the X platform, stating that recent discussions about the ongoing role of L2 in the Ethereum ecosystem have increased. Due to the slower-than-expected progress of L2 entering Phase 2, and the fact that L1 itself is undergoing expansion, the gas limit is expected to increase significantly by 2026. This means the original vision of L2 as Ethereum's "branded sharding" is no longer applicable, and a new path is needed.
Vitalik Buterin pointed out that L1 no longer needs L2 for branded sharding, and that L2s are either unable or unwilling to meet the properties required for true branded sharding. He suggested that L2s should identify value-add points beyond "scaling," such as privacy, application-specific efficiency, extreme scalability, non-financial application design, ultra-low latency, and built-in oracles. If handling ETH or other Ethereum assets, L2s should at least reach Stage 1 and support maximum interoperability with Ethereum.
In addition, Vitalik Buterin stated that over the past few months, he has become more convinced of the value of a native Rollup precompile, especially after having the ZK-EVM proofs required to scale L1. This precompile would make trustless EVM verification feasible without a security committee. He believes that research should be conducted on how to design this precompile so that it can verify the EVM portion when an L2 includes "EVM and other components." This would make it easier to achieve secure, robust, trustless interoperability with Ethereum and enable synchronous composability.