Vitalik: L1 Gas limit needs to be increased even in L2-dominated Ethereum

PANews reported on February 14 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released the latest article "The Reasons for L1 Gas Limits even in L2-dominated Ethereum." The article said that an important recent discussion in the Ethereum roadmap is about how to increase the L1 gas cap. Recently, the L1 gas cap has increased from 30 million to 36 million, with a 20% increase in capacity. Many support further significant increases in the near future. These increases are secure due to recent and upcoming technological improvements: increased efficiency of Ethereum clients, reduced demand for storing old history due to EIP-4444 (see roadmap), and stateless clients in the future. However, before we go this path, it is important to ask a question: Is it the right thing to do in the long run to increase the L1 gas cap in the context of a Rollup-centric roadmap? We do not want to end up with the centralized risks of high L1 use without really sure we will benefit from it. This article argues that even in a world where most of the uses and applications are in L2, significantly expanding L1 is still valuable because it enables a simpler and safer application development model. The article concludes that the approximately 10x expansion of L1 gas is of significant value even in the L2-dominated world. This in turn means that the short-term L1 expansion that can be achieved in the next 1-2 years is valuable regardless of the long term.