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Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base\u2026the list of layer-2 solutions goes on \u2014 and seems to be getting longer.<\/p>\n
Solana co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, believes that most of the layer-2 chains emerging, primarily on Ethereum, won\u2019t serve as sustainable scaling solutions in the long term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey fragment the user base. So the UX becomes very, very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the Lightspeed podcast (Spotify<\/a>\/Apple<\/a>), Yakovenko gives an example from his experience working in Web2 company, Dropbox. \u201cWe had one giant MySQL database for all the folders because as soon as you start fragmenting them, [it] becomes very hard to create links between different users of different folders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTracking consistency between two different databases is a major pain in the ass. You would have to synchronize everything through the [layer-1<\/a>].\u201d<\/p>\n The fragmentation, at a large enough scale, causes \u201cmassive composability\u201d and user experience problems, according to Yakovenko. \u201cYou have to re-sync through the [layer-1] and that\u2019s going to create the same kind of cost.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s very, very difficult to deal with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Yakovenko uses the example of NFTs<\/a> to illustrate the problem. \u201cYou can\u2019t have an NFT in every rollup<\/a>. It actually can only be bridged to one,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I want a specific NFT, the marketplace where it\u2019s sold is the marketplace that I need to buy in \u2014 and it can only exist in one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n By creating different states, layer-2s<\/a> break up the composability of marketplaces for a particular NFT, Yakoveko explains. \u201cThat\u2019s the fundamental challenge with [layer-2s].\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s an unavoidable trade-off, he says. \u201cYou get a performance benefit because you create this single global lock around a state and then you can work on it asynchronously from everything else, but you\u2019re creating a very hard composability challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n Theoretically, a singular layer-2 solution, rather than the current variety that exists in the Ethereum<\/a> ecosystem, would simplify the composability problem, Yakovenko says.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou take [Solana Virtual Machine] that runs as many things in parallel as it can,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt always increases hardware capacity to meet the demand.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThen, you take all the data and you dump it into danksharding\u201d which ideally would be, he says, the \u201cperfect implementation of a [data availability] layer that tries to maximize its [data availability] system.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo you have one [layer-2], one bandwidth-optimized system. That\u2019s basically what Solana is,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cSolana<\/a> itself can asynchronously execute all the programs, and then pick forks separately in a separate pipeline from execution of the programs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll the forks are quickly picked,\u201d he says, \u201cbut then these bigger systems can execute on the programs. You can then do batch [zero-knowledge] verification, if that\u2019s what you need. All that stuff is all doable on Solana.\u201d<\/p>\n Yakovenko notes that a \u201cfundamental difference\u201d persists between Solana and multi-layered chain solutions. \u201cThere\u2019s not going to be a demand for Solana to do danksharding because that really breaks that idea of information synchrony across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to split the data availability<\/a>,\u201d he says. \u201cEven though you might be able to get an improvement in bandwidth there, it actually does still have a trade-off.\u201d<\/p>\n Yakovenko believes in the necessity of a system that actively avoids asynchronous solutions. \u201cWhen I submit one bit here,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s equally observed in Singapore and Brazil, everywhere in the world, as fast as physics allow, because that actually creates value for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n The goal, Yakovenko explains, is to minimize \u201cinformation asymmetry<\/a> between any two players.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt allows for fair markets to exist,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s the one core use-case that you really can\u2019t optimize away with all these other systems.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of having a single rollup that can take up all of the bandwidth of the data availability layer, whether it\u2019s Solana or Celestia<\/a> or Ethereum,\u201d he says, \u201cthat idea is something that I think a lot of the engineers agree is probably the more efficient design.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the day\u2019s top crypto news and insights delivered to your email every evening.\u00a0Subscribe to Blockworks\u2019 free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Want alpha sent directly to your inbox? 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