Assuming all layer 3s settled to one layer 2, Ethereum would catch no worth, and its security would be in danger, contends Polygon President Marc Boiron.

Polygon President Marc Boiron has bothered up banter on X throughout the end of the week subsequent to contending that layer-3 organizations aren't important to scale Ethereum and exist just to burglarize the mainnet of worth.


On April 1, the Polygon President said that Polygon Labs, a layer-2 scaling network for Ethereum, doesn't deal with layer 3s since they are not expected to scale existing organizations.


"L3s exist just to remove esteem from Ethereum and onto the L2s on which the L3s are constructed," he said.

Be that as it may, Boiron's remarks didn't go unchallenged. One respondent remarked that layer-2s on Ethereum "ARE esteem on Ethereum," to which Boiron answered in fractional arrangement, yet adding:


66"I differ that L2 esteem is Ethereum esteem. Simply take this to the limit. On the off chance that all L3s settled to one L2, Ethereum would catch fundamentally no worth, and, accordingly, Ethereum security would be in danger."


"Additionally, it doesn't matter to us what individuals do. They can construct L3s on anything, including Polygon organizations," he went on prior to adding. "We simply aren't attempting to suck all worth onto Polygon networks as opposed to imparting to Ethereum its reasonable portion."



Boiron added that Polygon's central goal was proportional Ethereum when no other person made it happen, when the right tech was prepared, utilizing parallelization of the EVM and with protection. That's what he contended "L3s are not steady with that mission."


Layer-3 conventions are based on top of L2s to have application-explicit DApps giving a scope of answers for scaling, execution, interoperability, customization, and expenses.


Current driving players in the L3 biological system and arrangements from L2 networks incorporate Circles, Xai, Zak Synchrony Hyperchains, and the as of late sent off Degen Chain on Arbitrum Circle. Notwithstanding, the area is still little by examination, with just four L3 tokens recorded by CoinGecko.

In the interim, the senior organization director at Offchain Labs, Peter Haymond, contended that there were many advantages to L3s that don't take esteem from Ethereum.


The minimal expense of local spanning from L2 as opposed to L1, the minimal expense of demonstrating on-chain, custom gas tokens, and specific state progress capabilities were among some of them.


Arbitrum Establishment scientist Patrick McCorry said he was astounded by Boiron's take, adding:


66 "L3s appear like an easy decision, particularly when it permits the L2 to ultimately turn into a settlement layer (ie executing the scaffold is less expensive) and at last depending on Ethereum as worldwide requesting administration + last appointed authority of settlement."

On Walk 31, Helus Labs President Mert Mumtaz seemed to concur with Marc Boiron in a different post on X, expressing that "L3s are fundamentally unified servers choosing other concentrated servers (L2s) by multisigs."



Ethereum prime supporter Vitalik Buterin lighted the L3 banter in late 2022 when he said that layer-3s will fill an alternate need to scaling by giving "modified usefulness." A third layer on the blockchain checks out provided that it gives an alternate capability to layer-2s, he said at that point.