【Vitalik: L2 should prioritize improving exit speed and censorship resistance, rather than overly emphasizing sequencer decentralization】

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated that compared to "sequencer decentralization," the current L2 development should prioritize solving three things:

・Achieving the levels of Stage 1 and Stage 2;

・Shortening the native withdrawal time to within 1 hour;

・Establishing censorship-resistant channels to enhance censorship resistance.

He emphasized that the essence of L2 is that it does not exist independently as L1, but rather expands on the decentralized foundation of the underlying L1 to add features such as privacy (like intmax), extremely low latency, and MEV protection.

Vitalik added that while maximizing decentralization at each layer has value, if certain users or applications are extremely concerned about this, it might be more appropriate to choose to operate on L1 directly (or use a rollup that is extremely neutral like R1).