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ETF flows tell the same story. Every major fund is bleeding except iShares, with Fidelity and Franklin each reporting outflows of nearly $55 million, and BlackRock reportedly sending more than 35,000 ETH to Coinbase Prime. From the August peak, ETH is now down more than 54%. This move looks like profit-taking after a massive run, combined with a narrative reset around scaling. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has thrown a wrench into one of Ethereum’s most sacred assumptions: that layer-2 networks are the inevitable future of scaling. In a post on X this week, Buterin said Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap—the idea that layer-2s would effectively become Ethereum’s execution layer—“no longer makes sense.” Vitalik posted on X, writing that “L2s no longer makes sense,” Source: X For years, Ethereum’s strategy was clear: push most user activity off the main chain and onto rollups, which would act like semi-autonomous “branded shards” while still inheriting Ethereum’s security. Layer-2s were pitched as essential infrastructure, not optional add-ons. Ethereum would be the settlement layer; rollups would do the heavy lifting. But reality has intervened. According to Buterin, two things broke the original thesis. First, decentralization on layer-2s has progressed far more slowly than promised. Many rollups are still stuck in early trust models, reliant on centralized sequencers, upgrade keys, or governance structures that look uncomfortably Web2. Some, he notes, are “not able or willing” to meet the decentralization and security standards the original roadmap assumed—and some may intentionally stay that way, including for regulatory reasons. In other words: the training wheels aren’t coming off. Secondly Ethereum itself is scaling again. Layer-1 fees remain low, gas limits are expected to rise significantly, and the chain is no longer the congested bottleneck it was in 2020–2022. When the base layer is cheap and fast, the argument that users must…

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