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.
Vitalik's recent critique highlights how L2s capture most value without flowing back to L1, creating misalignment. MegaETH's founders discuss why this model is broken and how their approach differs by treating Ethereum as a security service provider rather than a symbiotic partner.