State Minimized Layer-2s and Why Ethereum > EVM
11-14, 18:10–18:20 (Asia/Bangkok), Stage 1

Ethereum is at a critical juncture in its development. Many layer-2s are of the same mentality of copy and pasting their architecture and have not innovated over key blockchain problems such as parallel execution or state growth. If Ethereum is to compete with other alternative high performance blockchains, it has to solve for state growth. This talk will explore the landscape of state minimized layer-2s and show how Ethereum will be able to go beyond the state problem with non-EVM based design.

Nick is the CEO of Fuel Labs and is the builder behind Fuel V1, the first Optimistic Rollup on Ethereum Mainnet. A long-time Ethereum community member and one of the first users of Solidity. Nick has presented multiple times at DevCon on topics from decentralized crowdfunding to DAO governance.