PANews reported on April 2 that Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang posted on X platform, pointing out that taxing Ethereum Layer 2 is a major poison for Ethereum's future development. This short-sighted approach sacrifices long-term scalability and ecosystem growth for short-term revenue, which is a centralized enterprise practice and not a choice for neutral platforms. Measuring ETH's value solely by Ethereum's income is putting the cart before the horse. ETH's true value lies in its becoming the core of thousands of rollup ecosystems, which is the real future path.
Solana follows a vertical integration route, with SOL dominating its system, but with strict control and limited scalability. In contrast, ETH has emerged prominently on platforms like Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, and Scroll, remaining the primary trading pair on DEXs even on non-gas token chains. More rollups mean higher ETH adoption, and ETH as a Store of Value (SoV) will gain more trust and usage. Every Layer 2 aligned with Ethereum is expanding its territory and strengthening social consensus, with thousands of scalable rollups centered on ETH having far greater potential than any single chain.
Ethereum should empower rather than exploit: 1. Accelerate deployment, expanding block size 1000 times to improve execution layer scalability; 2. Make Ethereum's data availability (DA) more attractive by providing interoperability, shared components, liquidity bridging, and other values beyond security; 3. Empower more participants aligned with Ethereum's philosophy. ETH's victory is about becoming a gravitational center, not a toll booth.
