Vitalik: Plan to mention only L2 projects that have reached Phase 1 and above in public from next year
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, posted on social media, "I am very serious about this. Starting next year, I plan to mention only those L2 projects that have reached Stage 1 and above in public (e.g. blogs, speeches, etc.), perhaps giving a short grace period to new really interesting projects."
No matter whether I invest or you are my friend, projects must reach Stage 1 or they will not be considered. I have been told by multiple ZK-rollup teams that they expect to reach Stage 1 before the end of the year. I am very much looking forward to it.
Of course, we can't abandon the "auxiliary wheel" before ensuring the proof system is safe, it would be irresponsible to do that. But Stage 1 (75% of committee members have the power to override the proof system, of which 26% and above must come from members outside the rollup team) is a very reasonable intermediate milestone. For several years, the multiple signings I've been involved in haven't had a single activity issue, let alone 26%.
The era of Rollups as a "multi-signature upgrade" is coming to an end, and the era of cryptographic trust is coming. "