The route is facing a change. With Rollup, what should Ethereum 2.0 do?
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The popularity of DEFI has fully exposed the fragility of Ethereum. Since the number of transactions on the chain cannot meet the market demand, the handling fee on Ethereum has increased rapidly, even exceeding the handling fee of Bitcoin in the peak period. It was once attacked by the BCH Party The 100 yuan handling fee of bitcoin that complained about is dwarfed by the hundreds of yuan handling fee record of Ethereum, and no one turns to do DEFI on the ETC chain because of such a high handling fee, which also shows to a certain extent It is still problematic to simply look at the level of handling fees.
Of course, for the public chain, the handling fee is not the key point. The real focus is the transaction speed. The high handling fee is because everyone wants to complete the transaction in a very short time, especially for all kinds of swaps. If you are stuck on the chain, even if you wait until your own time is up, the buying and selling prices are estimated to be very different, which is why Ethereum has one or another problem.
After the DEFI frenzy, community developers really realized the performance problems brought about by the transaction speed, but the pie depicted by Ethereum 2.0 is too big, and the long-distance water cannot quench the near thirst, so it has to be considered in the long-term, so it has not been valued by the public for a long time layer2 is brought to the stage, and rollup is the focus of this time.
Let’s not talk about the advantages of ZK Rollup and Optimistic Rollup at present, but the attention of rollup can be regarded as the current progress of Ethereum. At least people have begun to pay attention to the problem of capacity expansion, and there are corresponding solutions to choose from. Rollup It is said that once it is completed, the corresponding TPS can reach about 3000, which is relatively close to the current EOS data, so at this level, most applications can actually run smoothly.
Although rollup can solve the problems faced by Ethereum in the short term, for ETH2.0, the author believes that this can only be a last resort solution, and in the long run, it will prolong the development progress of Ethereum 2.0. There are many reasons, and the position of layer2 in the future development of Ethereum is an important issue. Before Ethereum 2.0, the author often pays attention to an Ethereum project similar to Bitcoin "Lightning Network", mainly The name of the expansion is "Raiden Network". After the attention of the market on Ethereum 2.0, whether "Raiden Network" will be abandoned is a question worth pondering.
The first one is that in the field of blockchain development, on the one hand, there is a tradition of doing things in a bear market and speculating in a bull market. That is to say, most development teams can basically develop and improve functions only during a bear market. Many excellent projects are also Significant development has been achieved during the bear market. For example, a large number of public chain mainnets were launched during the period from 2018 to 2020. However, during the bull market, it clearly showed the characteristics of speculating in coins. For example, in 2017 the whole In the middle of the year, a large number of new projects began to raise funds and issue coins, and then quickly went online to hype the exchanges. Many white papers were even just "air", and more money was permeated in it. So for Ethereum 2.0, if next year With a bull market, maybe 2.0 can only be perfected, and will not really produce practical applications.
So in this way, this round of big bull market may still be dominated by rollup or layer2, and Ethereum 2.0 may be applied in the next bull market. If the law of bull market every four years is effective, the time may be around 2025.
The second is that in the field of blockchain, the number of excellent developers can be approximately regarded as fixed, especially for the bottom layer of Ethereum or the team of major route planning and execution. Ethereum developers account for the vast majority of developers in the blockchain field. Although some of them focus on the development of various dapps, smart contracts and other projects, for general directions, such as layer2 or ETH2.0 development behavior, in fact, we It can be simply understood as constant, that is to say, as the number of people who develop this function increases, the number of people who develop another function will naturally decrease. Therefore, in this way, the originally scheduled Ethereum 2.0 tasks may be rolled up or other layer2 Waiting to grab development resources, then naturally the development of Ethereum 2.0 may be a step slower.
