#7: Piotr Szlachciak, L2BEAT

Today’s guest is Piotr Szlachciak, the co-founder of L2BEAT — the Ethereum space’s go-to resource for analytics on L2 scaling solutions. In addition, Piotr has several years of experience working as a software engineer and leading engineering teams in the Ethereum ecosystem.

https://twitter.com/PiotrSzlachciak

https://twitter.com/l2beat

[0:00] Introduction and Piotr's crypto history
[7:45] L2BEAT's founding story
[12:00] Decentralized vs traditional companies
[15:30] L2BEAT user personas
[21:35] Do L2s conform to L2BEAT's standards?
[25:22] Governance in L2 communities
[33:58] L2BEAT as a public goods company/business model
[48:40] The state of the L2 ecosystem
[51:43] The risks of cross-chain bridges
[58:00] Alternative data availability solutions
[1:00:54] Gathering data for L2BEAT
[1:09:50] What's next for L2BEAT

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