LAYER 2’S EVERYWHERE: In final week’s The Protocol, we devoted a not-inconsiderable amount of ink to the fast-growing checklist of recent “layer 2” blockchains aiming to supply a venue for quick and speedy transactions atop Ethereum. Seize one other effectively, trigger there’s been lots extra bulletins already this week. Probably the most notable was inarguably Tuesday’s disclosure by the crypto trade OKX that it plans to construct a layer 2 utilizing Polygon’s expertise. Wednesday introduced the information of Kinto, which has raised $5 million this yr to develop a layer-2 community that is totally compliant with anti-money-laundering legal guidelines utilizing Optimism’s OP Stack, and Redstone, an “different knowledge availability” chain designed by the Lattice group for OP Stack. There are nagging questions on simply who’s going to make use of all these networks, however builders counsel there’s nonetheless not sufficient. “We’ll want a whole lot of L2s,” Ryan Wyatt, who was simply employed by a unit of the Optimism Basis as chief progress officer after leaving Polygon Labs a number of months in the past, advised CoinDesk TV this week. “One chain, a mainnet, isn’t going to do it.” Even Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson tried to elbow into the combo, posting Sunday on X (previously Twitter) that “I am sport in case you are” – attaching a hyperlink to CoinDesk’s article final week about Kraken’s discussions with potential layer-2 expertise companions together with Polygon, Matter Labs and Nil Basis – and tagging Kraken Chairman Jesse Powell. One snarky poster replied, “If that is how we reaching out, probably not occurring.”
