
I’ve proposed what I believe is a win-win fix for Ethereum’s rollup revenue a few times: Ethereum needs to provide more for its most successful L2s, and charge them a premium for it. Ethereum should adopt its largest rollups in the sense that a critical bug in Arbitrum, Base, or Robinhood Chain should be treated as an Ethereum vulnerability and trigger an L1 fork just like an L1 bug would. This fixes the ecosystem's biggest pain points in three ways: 1. It's an incredibly valuable feature, and Ethereum could name its price. 2. The main reason L2s keep security councils around today is to handle emergency vulnerabilities. If L1 acts as the security backstop, L2s can safely get rid of them. 3. Several L1 folks have been pushing for based/native rollups, motivated by the belief that L1 should have more control of and value capture from its L2s. But the technical designs are problematic and none of them have any commercial traction. Rather than trying to build momentum from scratch, Ethereum should just monetize the thriving L2s that already exist.



















