Starting with just a handful of pioneers a few years ago led by Arbitrum and Optimism, there’s been a rapid multiplication of layer-2 networks atop Ethereum, designed to provide an alternate venue for executing transactions, usually cheaper and faster. The tracking website L2Beat now lists 73 active layer-2 projects, 20 layer-3 projects, 81 upcoming projects and 12 already archived.
That’s the backdrop for why Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, the main developer firm behind the ZKsync layer-2 protocol, sees fragmentation as the next big challenge the blockchain space needs to tackle.
“Right now the race is to solve the fragmentation,” Gluchowski
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