Anti-L2 push could ‘break the social fabric’ of Ethereum — Sandeep Nailwal

Viewing Ethereum’s scaling networks as competition is the wrong way to think about the ecosystem, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said.

A portion of the Ethereum community is pressuring the Ethereum Foundation to make decisions that may “break the entire social fabric” of the smart contract network by restricting Ethereum’s layer-2 (L2) networks, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said.

Speaking during a March 28 episode of Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction show on X, the Polygon founder said that he has only seen this type of pressure and anti-L2 rhetoric during the current market cycle amid suppressed price action for Ether (ETH).

“Everybody understands that if Ethereum doesn’t survive, the layer-2s won’t survive,” Nailwal said, adding:

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