📌 LATEST: Vitalik Buterin on Blockchain Scaling Hierarchy
Vitalik Buterin shared insights on how blockchain scaling works, outlining a clear hierarchy of difficulty:
🧱 Scaling Difficulty (Easiest → Hardest):
1️⃣ Computation — easiest to scale
2️⃣ Data — moderate difficulty
3️⃣ State — hardest to scale long term
Vitalik emphasized that developers should move up the hierarchy whenever possible, reducing state growth and heavy data usage to achieve more efficient and sustainable scaling.
🧠 Key takeaway:
Not all scaling is equal. Optimizing where work is done matters as much as how much work is done.
The framework adds context to ongoing debates around rollups, data availability, and state bloat across Layer 1s and Layer 2s.
