2024 May 23 See all posts How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding? One of the points that I made in my post two and half years ago on "the Endgame" is that the different future development paths for a blockchain, at least technologically, look surprisingly similar. In both cases, you have a very large number of transactions onchain, and processing them requires (i) a large amount of computation, and (ii) a large amount of data bandwidth. Regular Ethereum nodes, such as the 2 TB ret...