Solana Co-founder: Solana focuses on continuing to directly scale Layer 1

ChainCatcher news, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko expressed his views on whether Solana needs Layer 2 solutions. Yakovenko pointed out that while there are no technical barriers preventing developers from creating Layer 2 solutions on Solana, the main goal of Solana is to synchronize the global atomic state machine as quickly as possible within the limits allowed by physical laws. In this final state, any Layer 2, sidechain, or zero-knowledge proof Valadium is an external execution environment that cannot ensure atomic composition with the Layer 1 state.

While technologies like sidechains, data availability verification bridges, and zero-knowledge proof Valadium are innovative and popular, they do not extend the global atomic state machine. Therefore, this issue may not be entirely relevant. Solana focuses on continuing to directly scale Layer 1 and enhancing the single virtual machine instance on Layer 1, which may only require hardware upgrades in the future.