Wu said that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted that, compared to solely pursuing lower latency, increasing bandwidth and scalability is safer for decentralization. He pointed out that latency is limited by physical constraints such as the speed of light, node geographic distribution, censorship resistance, and economic incentives. Ethereum should serve as a "global heartbeat" rather than a low-latency gaming server. Vitalik believes that future applications requiring faster responses will rely on L2 and off-chain components, and in the AI era, it may even give rise to city-level or highly localized L2 solutions.
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Wu said that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted that, compared to solely pursuing lower latency, increasing bandwidth and scalability is safer for decentralization. He pointed out that latency is limited by physical constraints such as the speed of light, node geographic distribution, censorship resistance, and economic incentives. Ethereum should serve as a "global heartbeat" rather than a low-latency gaming server. Vitalik believes that future applications requiring faster responses will rely on L2 and off-chain components, and in the AI era, it may even give rise to city-level or highly localized L2 solutions.