The severity of the current bear market was highlighted today by Bitwise Chief Investment Officer (CIO), who colorfully described the current slump as a ‘Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-The-Revenant-style crypto winter.’ The comparison speaks to the intense, brutal, and often fatal nature of the downturn for less resilient projects, emphasizing that survival requires extreme measures and enduring hardship. The CIO argues that while painful, this phase is necessary for purging speculation and ensuring only projects built on strong fundamentals endure, setting the stage for the next bull cycle.
Meanwhile, critical infrastructure debates are heating up within the Ethereum ecosystem. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, indicated he is reconsidering the network’s long-standing rollup-centric roadmap. For years, the official scaling strategy heavily favored Layer 2 (L2) rollups (Optimistic and ZK) for transaction throughput, leaving Layer 1 (L1) primarily for data availability and settlement. The reevaluation is reportedly driven by concerns over L2 sequencer centralization and the need to ensure tighter security guarantees as the ecosystem matures. This shift could lead to more scaling features, such as enhanced proto-Danksharding or enshrined rollups, being integrated closer to or directly into the base layer (L1) to accelerate scalability and decentralization efforts.
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