United States of Ethereum: E Pluribus Unum

The essay argues that Ethereum can be understood through the analogy of the United States, with Ethereum Mainnet as a lightweight federal government and L2s as independent states that follow its rules, use ETH and pay Mainnet taxes. It says this pluralistic design lets L2s differ in technology, users and governance, limiting damage when one fails, much as the US has relied on diverse states. On the L1 and L2 relationship, it notes that most fees are currently captured by L2s because of blobs, but that this could shift as blob pricing follows network usage. It proposes that L2s cooperate by onboarding users from chains such as Tron, Solana and BSC, and by specializing and interconnecting, as US states do.