Ye Zhang, co-founder of Ethereum Layer-2 Network Scroll, opposed Ethereum’s call to charge a fee on the Layer 2 network.
In a detailed social media post on April 2, Chang argued that the proposal was detrimental to Ethereum’s long-term vision. He called it a “toxic” approach that prioritizes short-term revenue over sustainable ecosystem value.
According to Zhang, Ethereum’s strength is not in dividing fees from rollups, but in positioning ETH as a core asset in the multiple layer 2 (L2) ecosystem. He argued that taxing these networks reflects corporate behavior and violated the principles of decentralization, which Ethereum represents.
He emphasized that Ethereum’s value should not be measured by protocol revenue. Instead, networks should be viewed as the economic foundation of a growing roll-up-centered ecosystem.
He pointed out:
“The true strength of ETH is not the protocol fee. It’s becoming a hub asset across thousands of roll-up ecosystems. That’s the future.”
Zhang explained that the advantages of ETH are across major L2 platforms such as Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Zksync, and Scroll. He said that even networks like StarkNet do not use ETH for gas, so digital assets remain important trading pairs on decentralized exchanges.
The Future of Ethereum
With this in mind, Chan outlined two possible directions for Ethereum. In one scenario, ETH evolves into a central hub of trusted stores and rollup activities for value.
According to Chan:
“All the aligned L2s expand the surface area and social consensus of Ethereum. 1000 scalable rollups with ETH as the center> any monolithic chain.”
Meanwhile, Ethereum can focus on taxing L2 activities, driving them towards the availability layer of alternative data, reducing the impact of ETH in the broader blockchain situation.
To avoid this, Zhang encouraged the community to focus on scaling their execution and improving their data availability infrastructure.
He sought 1000 times the improvement in BLOB capacity and encouraged the creation of shared tools such as cross-rollup liquidity bridges and interoperability solutions.
Chan concluded:
“ETH wins by gravity rather than toll plaza.”
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