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Bankless·2025-08-11 16:00
Why should L1s stay out of the HFT game?@VitalikButerin warns that pushing for ultra-low latency in finance has no natural stopping point:“The further you go… the more that increases the incentives for ecosystem actors to go in that direction.”His answer is Ethereum’s “barbell strategy”:Let L2s handle high-frequency, centralized activity while L1 preserves decentralization, security, and censorship resistance. ...