Is the Ethereum Roadmap Off Track?

Is the Ethereum roadmap… off track? Have we lost the plot? Are L2s running interference, intercepting all the users, transactions, and value from reaching the L1? And if all of this is real, and not just FUD, what should we do about it?

We have Max Resnick on the show today, he's an Ethereum researcher working at Special Mechanism Group and he’s got some opinions that are contrary to what is typically found out of the Ethereum Rollup-Centric Roadmap.

Max explains why Ethereum is breaking down on its vision for bringing the world onto decentralized, censorship resistant, permissionless blockchains, and suggests possible alternative directions.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
2:22 Max’s Contrarian Take
9:34 The State of Rollups
15:14 Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum?
25:06 What Needs to Change
40:26 Based Rollups
45:58 The Holy Grail Blockchain
54:54 Scaling the L1
1:01:21 Max’s Incentives
1:05:46 Why Not Solana?
1:09:58 Navigating ETH’s Roadmap
1:13:58 ETH: The Asset
1:18:07 Value Capture
1:19:50 Call to Action
1:22:35 Closing & Disclaimers

RESOURCES

Max Resnick
https://x.com/MaxResnick1

Max Resnick Holy Grail Blockchain Tweet
https://x.com/MaxResnick1/status/1826630256008331301

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