# ETH‘s tactical problem is not being able to serve consumer apps

Source: https://warpcast.com/v/0x170cef78
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ETHs-tactical-problem-is-not-being-able-to-serve-consumer-apps?index=0x6795f0f8318c670dd08d6cc7834aaeec95423b119b60e0a669e613187c5596ceda153245
Submitted by tim on 2025-01-26 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

The author argues that Ethereum's central tactical problem is its free market of L2 chains, which is technically sound and decentralized but creates externalities that degrade user experience. Layers, chains, EIP-7702 wallets, EVM compatibility and bridges are too complex for a normal user to understand. Ethereum fixes such as bigger blobs, account and chain abstraction, and native rollups are described as a massively complex roadmap that will take years, during which Solana is said to be eating Ethereum's lunch.

## Article

ETH's tactical problem is the L2 free market. It is a great approach from the perspective of finding the right technical solution and remaining decentralized, but the externalities eat away at the user experience, which is  equally if not more important. 

There is simply no way for a normal user to understand what they are getting into with layers, chains, 7702 wallets, evm compatibility and bridges. 

There is a light at the end of the tunnel if we make blobs bigger, introduce account + chain abstraction, native rollups etc, but this is a massively complex roadmap and will take years to realize. 

In that time, Solana just works (tm) and is eating ETHs lunch.