Opinion by: Jin Kwon, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Saga
Crypto has come a long way in boosting transaction throughput. New layer 1s (L1s) and side networks offer faster, cheaper transactions than ever before. Yet, a core challenge has come into focus: liquidity fragmentation — the scattering of capital and users across an ever-growing maze of blockchains.
Vitalik Buterin, in a recent blog data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>post, highlighted how scaling successes have led to unforeseen coordination challenges. With so many chains and so much value splintered among them,…
