Gnosis founder argues Ethereum needs native L2s

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Devcon Bangkok is seeing a lot of debates about Ethereum’s future. The latest keynote on the topic was Martin Koeppelmann of Gnosis, who spoke Friday on the event’s main stage.

Wearing a Tornado Cash t-shirt, Koeppelmann challenged the status quo of layer-2 rollups, proposing that Ethereum should instead develop and deploy its own zk-proven rollups.

Köppelmann emphasized the limitations of existing rollups such as Base, which he argued are bringing users not to Ethereum but to corporate-controlled platforms.

“I have the highest respect for Jesse [Pollack] and Coinbase,” he…

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