Rollups are doing the heavy lifting for throughput, but Ethereum’s security and data availability are what make those L2s trustworthy. The real debate isn’t L1 vs. L2; it’s whether the base layer can remain credibly neutral and sufficiently decentralized as the ecosystem scales. Danksharding, blob transactions, and the roadmap toward statelessness are all bets on that proposition. If Ethereum becomes too expensive for solo stakers or too complex for independent validators, it loses the very property that made it valuable in the first place. The question of what makes a chain worth building on isn’t technical — it’s philosophical, and this vault sits right at that intersection.