According to ChainCatcher, Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, the main development company of ZKsync, believes that as L2 gradually increases, fragmentation is the next major challenge that needs to be solved in the blockchain field.

He said the new competition will be between projects offering interoperability solutions, “more specifically, Optimism’s Superchain and Matter Labs’ Elastic Chain, because they are the only two ecosystems in blockchain that actually implement interoperability.” Gluchowski said he doubts Optimism’s interoperability plans will be easy to achieve without upgrading its system to include zero-knowledge proofs, “which are complex technologies.”

Gluchowski said L2 chains need to be redefined and seen as having their place for specific use cases, “The real question is, do we have an L2 that matters? I don’t think we need too many general purpose L2s, but we do need some application specific L2s or community specific L2s.”