Bankless · Friday, July 17, 2026
Stephen Goldfeder, founder of Arbitrum, has proposed that major Layer 2 solutions like Arbitrum, Base, and Robinhood Chain should be treated as extensions of Ethereum's core protocol. Under this proposal, critical bugs on these L2s would trigger an Ethereum L1 fork, similar to how L1 bugs are handled, in exchange for potentially higher 'rent' payments.
“Ethereum should adopt its largest roll-ups in the sense that a critical bug in Arbitrum, Base, or Robinhood chain should be treated as an Ethereum vulnerability and trigger an L1 fork just like an L1 bug would.”
“And so Stephen Goldfeder is proposing to overload Ethereum consensus.”
“No, he's not. He's just saying just Arbitrum. He's not overloading it, just add Arbitrum. And base and Robinhood chain.”