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On Trust Minimization and Horizontal Scaling

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Ethereum is a permissionless world computer that possesses (arguably) the highest amount of economic security at the time of writing, acting as the settlement ledger for a vast number of assets, applications, and services. Ethereum does have its limitations – blockspace is a scarce and expensive resource on Ethereum layer one (L1). Layer two (L2) scaling has been seen as the solution to this problem, with numerous projects coming to market in recent years, mostly in the form of rollups. However, rollups, in the strict sense of the term (meaning rollup data is on Ethereum L1), does not allow Ethereum to scale indefinitely, only allowing up to few thousands of transactions per second. Trust-minimized – (a feature of) an L2 system is trust-minimized if it functions without requiring trust external to the base L1. Horizontal scaling – a system is horizontally scalable if instances can be added without imposing global bottlenecks. In this article, we argue that trust-minimized and horizonta

On Trust Minimization and Horizontal Scaling On Trust Minimization and Horizontal Scaling Wei Dai January 9th, 2024 This article is also published on Mirror . Ethereum is a permissionless world computer that possesses ( arguably ) the highest amount of economic security at the time of writing, acting as the settlement ledger for a vast number of assets, applications, and services. Ethereum does have its limitations – blockspace is a scarce and expensive resource on Ethereum layer one (L1). Layer two (L2) scaling has been seen as the solution to this problem , with numerous projects coming to m

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