🚨Vitalik just quietly rewrote $ETH roadmap.

• For years, L2s were framed as “Ethereum shards”
• Cheap execution
• Backed by L1 security
• Part of one unified system

That model no longer fits reality.

Two things changed:

1️⃣Ethereum L1 is scaling fast. Fees are already near zero and gas limits are set to rise sharply in 2026.

2️⃣Most L2s aren’t becoming fully trustless Stage-2 rollups. Some don’t even want to.

So Vitalik’s shift is simple but profound:

L2s aren’t here to “scale Ethereum” anymore.
They’re here to add things Ethereum itself won’t do.

✓ Privacy
✓ Ultra-fast trading
✓ AI execution
✓ Specialized VMs
✓ App-specific chains
✓ Non-financial use cases

Ethereum becomes the credibility layer.
L2s become feature layers.

The glue between them is what matters now
- Native ZK proof verification
- Trustless interoperability
- Synchronous composability

In other words:

Ethereum is turning into the base layer of digital trust.
L2s are turning into everything built on top of it.

No hype.
No price call.

Just a fundamental change in how the ecosystem is being designed.👀

#ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #VitalikButerin