With ETH’s price back in the $2900 range, there has been a lot of debate on the level of security Layer 2s provide, their long-term ROI, and the sustainability of their price rally. After crossing the $4000 level on May 12, the price dropped, several times and the scaling solutions’ have rallied.
Consider the analogy, someone with $100 can save or store it in several ways as they would like. There is the option of storing it in a wallet, keeping it in a bank, or in the security of a vault. However, with Ethereum, a trader with $100 worth of ETH would have to use all ways at once – store in a wallet, bank and vault at once. Does that make it inefficient and unnecessary?
What L2 solutions do is that they offer the option of one way instead of many, making it efficient. These L2 solutions are projects like MATIC, Loopring, OMG. All three projects have offered high short-term ROI since the launch of ETH L2. In the case of MATIC, the number of transactions and the transaction volume have increased significantly since the launch.
The altcoin now ranks 14 in the top 25. The transaction volume for nearly all three projects has increased, on account of significantly high fees of settling transactions on the ETH network. According to data scientist @ASvanevik, MATIC has the largest inflow of stablecoins of any Ethereum address in the last 7 days. This signals increasing demand for MATIC, while the price rally extends beyond the 105% from last week.
Source: Lunarcrush.com
In the case of Loopring based on the following data from Lunarcrush.com, the Galaxy Score Trend, a combined measure of health, quality and performance, is at 63, lower than the peak it hit the second week of May 2021. The social volume has dropped considerably and the demand across exchanges has dropped. It is anticipated that once the social volume recovers and trader sentiment is neutral, Loopring would offer high short-term ROI like other L2 scaling solutions.
L2 solutions are likely to remain relevant for a long time; as ETH transaction fees remain high, traders and ETH Maxis have been bullish about MATIC and Loopring. MATIC already offers side chains and plasma and has a roadmap to introduce optimistic and Zk rollups in the future which is likely to increase ease of use. In the war of L2 scaling solutions, ease of use is the key factor, after demand and ROI. Long-term ROI is anticipated to be high for ETH and scaling solutions alongside it.
