Rebel Metis: Ethereum Layer2's AI chain breakthrough and ecological disruption

Reprinted from panewslab
02/26/2025·2MTell me what I think about @MetisL2’s announcement of brand reshaping to make an AI chain:
- Since the shaking flag-shaking AI Agent narrative style, I have always called on traditional old technology narratives and old chains to embrace the new narrative of AI + Crypto.
Solana is at the forefront with PumpFun MEME Summer, and although the Ethereum ecosystem has Base chain and the outstanding performance of the Virtual ecosystem has also attracted much attention, relying on just one Base obviously cannot shake the path dependence of the entire Ethereum Rollup-Centric ecosystem. In this case, $METIS can't sit still.
- I don’t know how much Vitalik’s mom’s credit is behind it, but Metis can jump out first to break the inertial dependence on being the “reverse” of Ethereum layer2. If you look at Metis’ previous series of narratives and plays, you won’t be able to do it at all. Accident:
When the Ethereum layer2 ecosystem was trapped in the technical narrative dispute between ZK-Rollup and OP-Rollup strategies, Metis seized on the centralization problem of most layer2 Sequencer sorters and launched a decentralized sorter and hybrid Rollup. A unique and innovative narrative;
When Ethereum layer2 is too general and the entire market is playing Stack commercial narrative, Metis also took the lead and chose to focus on layer2's own economy, because Metis believes that the Stack strategy cannot solve the lack of layer2's own hematopoietic ability of the layer2 ecosystem. the problem;
In short, Metis has always focused on a "rebellious" image in the entire Ethereum layer2 ecosystem. Now, when Ethereum is facing a weak opportunity to innovate, Metis will naturally not miss it, and once again, it will "draw the sword" again.
- How to do it specifically? The first thing to do is to take advantage of the high-performance advantages of layer2, upgrade the Android network, and debut with a brand new high-performance chain image, at least keep pace with the Ethereum killer chains such as Solana, which focuses on high-performance;
In addition, the vision of making Layer2 chain a new AI computing infrastructure was proposed, including IDAO personal center autonomous organization, DAT data anchoring tokens, LazAI multi-dimensional data acquisition system, AIith AI Agent framework standard, AI-Native application incubation etc.
Since most of the reshaping framework structure has just been proposed, we have to wait for further details to be implemented, and it is not possible to evaluate what the new AI narrative will bring? To take a step back, this is at least the current Ethereum ecosystem, which is the first layer2 public chain to propose a systematic AI transformation architecture in AI Native.
Ethereum has the most active developer technology ecosystem organization, but the "modular" narrative was introduced by @cosmos, and the "chain abstract" narrative was abstracted by @ParticleNtwrk on its account abstract AA concept. ZK technology is considered Ether The ace narrative of the cemetery, such as @RiscZero, @ProjectZKM, @SuccinctLabs, etc., has been in the upstream of the supply chain for a long time and is not well known to the public.
What to do? The only solution: Embrace AI narrative. As a front-end application, AI Agent can bring upstream unpopular narratives such as zkVM on Ethereum to the center of the stage, and at the same time activate the outdated ecological vitality of DeFi, Gamefi, Metaverse on Ethereum. Why not for?