This panel will dig into the delicate balance of Ethereum's rollup-centric future. We'll talk about the "frenemy" dynamic between competing L2 ecosystems, and how this can lead to a fragmented user experience. We'll strategize on ways to maintain diversity while making interoperability easy for users—including a discussion on the pros/cons of supporting standards like ERC-7683. Can we get the best of both worlds: the innovation and diversity of many L2s, with the UX of a unified Ethereum?

Main Stage

Ben Jones

Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder of Risk Labs, the foundation behind the Across and UMA Protocols. Across is a next-generation bridge designed around the “Intents” model, delivering fast interoperability to unify Ethereum’s fragmented landscape. UMA is a pioneering optimistic oracle, empowering onchain verification of complex, real-world data for prediction markets and other decentralized applications.

Hart Lambur

Jesse Pollak serves as VP, Engineering at Coinbase, where he works on Ethereum L1, L2, and new onchain efforts. He is the Creator of Base, a decentralized Ethereum L2 incubated by Coinbase offering a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build onchain apps. Prior to building Base, Jesse led all of Coinbase’s consumer-facing engineering from early 2017 to middle 2021, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet.

Jesse Pollak

Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the original contributor to Arbitrum - the market-leading L2 scaling solution on Ethereum. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, Steven's expertise spans blockchain technology and cryptography. Prior to Offchain Labs, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech and held internships at Microsoft Research and Google.