Anti-L2 push could ‘break the social fabric’ of Ethereum — Sandeep Nailwal

A portion of the Ethereum community is pressuring the Ethereum Foundation to make decisions that may “break the entire social fabric” of the smart contract network by restricting Ethereum's layer-2 (L2) networks, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said. Speaking during a March 28 episode of Cointelegraph's Chain Reaction show on X, the Polygon founder said that he has only seen this type of pressure and anti-L2 rhetoric during the current market cycle amid suppressed price action for Ether (ETH). “Everybody understands that if Ethereum doesn’t survive, the layer-2s won’t survive,” Nailwal said, adding:"The Ethereum community should not pressure the developers enough — I should not be able to pressure the developers enough — for price movements and all that, they may end up making a decision that completely breaks the social fabric of Ethereum. "The Polygon co-founder praised Vitalik Buterin’s leadership and his more active role in the Ethereum Foundation, saying he has been the biggest force in keeping Ethereum's ecosystem cohesive source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sandeep-nailwal-preserving-social-fabric-ethereum?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound