@gcdepaula

While faster withdrawals are undeniably important, deprioritizing Stage 2 at this point feels reckless. L2s must meet the same standards that make Ethereum worth scaling. History is clear: when removing training wheels isn’t urgent, teams just deprioritize it and progress stalls. Cost at scale also demands sober reckoning. Justin Drake’s recent “lean Ethereum” calls for tera-gas/sec throughput across L2s. At today’s ZK proving prices (~$0.004 per MGas/s, see ethproofs), that’s ~$120B yearly. Forty times Ethereum’s annual issuance and nearly the entire economic security of the network, all incinerated yearly at the silicon altar of the ZK gods. Even if we manage to cut these costs by an order of magnitude, the burden remains enormous. 1/2

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