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Choosing L2 over building a new L1 avoids reinventing security and network effects.
  • Building an L1 would require creating a new validator set, consensus, and economic security from scratch.
  • Lighter would lose the massive TVL and developer ecosystem already present on Ethereum.
  • An L2 lets the team focus on the hard technical problems of trading performance rather than consensus design.
  • Vlad notes that the effort to build a new L1 would discard years of hard‑won engineering.
Vladimir NovakovskiEmpire00:18:27

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If you build a new L1 you throw out all the hard and interesting things we've built. Vladimir Novakovski
You would lose the security and composability that Ethereum provides. Vladimir Novakovski

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Strategic Positioning on Ethereum L2

Lighter deliberately stays on Ethereum rather than launching its own L1, leveraging the security, decentralization, and composability of the world's most trusted blockchain while delivering a high-performance L2 for trading.

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