Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that starting next year, he plans to only publicly mention (in blogs, speeches, etc.) L2 projects that are in Phase 1+, and may give a short grace period to some really interesting new projects.
Vitalik said: "Whether I've invested or not, or whether you're my friend, there's only Phase 1 or nothing. Multiple ZK-rollup teams have told me that they expect to reach Phase 1 by the end of the year. I'm very excited about this. Of course, we shouldn't easily throw off the training wheels before we are truly confident in the security of the proof system; that would be irresponsible. But Phase 1 (75% of the council needs to cover the proof system, and 26%+ of the council members must come from outside the rollup team) is a very reasonable modest milestone. The multisig wallet I'm on hasn't had a single activity failure in years, let alone a 26% failure rate. The era of rollups as glorified multisig wallets is coming to an end. The era of crypto trust is coming."
