Vitalik just said the quiet part out loud
L2s were never meant to exist forever as “branded shards” of Ethereum. Scaling alone is no longer a moat
L1 is scaling.
Fees are cheap.
Gas limits are going up.
So the question for L2s is no longer “how do we scale $ETH Ethereum?”
It’s “what real value do we add that L1 itself will never optimize for?”
This is why I’ve been paying close attention to what @MantaNetwork has been doing.
While most L2s were still fighting for infra narratives, Manta made a move most projects were too afraid to even consider which is pivoting from pure infrastructure into real applications for real users.
That decision wasn’t obvious.
It wasn’t safe. it definitely wasn’t popular at the time.
But it was right.
Today, the results speak for themselves:
☑️ @junkfun_ → 100k+ users extracting real value from dead tokens
☑️ @SUPERFORTUNE888 → a fast-growing app at the intersection of Web3, culture, and eastern metaphysics. Top AI dApps on BNBchain
These are products people actually use.
That’s the future Vitalik is pointing toward: L2s that stop pretending they’re just extensions of L1
and start building new primitives, new experiences, new reasons to exist.
From where I’m standing, Manta understood the shift before the market did.
I’m confident this year we’ll see more Manta built applications with real users, real retention, and real value.
$MANTA is proving that path is not only possible, it’s inevitable 🔥
