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Bitcoin’s Lack of Layer 2s Is a Blessing in Disguise

The unscalable blockchain par excellence can help fix crypto's longstanding scalability problem. The solution is to build a network where base and scaling layers are indistinguishable.

Layer 2s with native tokens and blockchain bridges might introduce more problems than they fix as blockchain scaling solutions, Trust Machine's Rena Shah argues. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
Layer 2s with native tokens and blockchain bridges might introduce more problems than they fix as blockchain scaling solutions, Trust Machine's Rena Shah argues. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)