为什么总有人唱衰以太坊?

比推Published on 2024-08-13Last updated on 2024-08-13

以太坊生态此刻要考虑的不是重塑 DeFi Summer,而恰恰是走出纯 DeFi 文化阴霾。

撰文:Haotian

为什么市场唱衰以太坊的声音总是此起彼伏?简单来说:以太坊生态系统确实面对内忧外患的焦灼处境,内有 layer2 等扩展方案一直挺不起脊梁,外有 Solana 等杀手始终亡我坊之心不死,创新乏力和竞争压力下的以太坊迎来了至难时刻。接下来,简单谈谈我的看法:

1)以太坊 Rollups 的大小生态系统已经成型,坎昆升级 EIP-4844 之后,以太坊短期技术层面的利好已然落定。更长期的分片链在 Rollup 冲击下已不再预期,而降低节点成本、简化协议以及底层 ZK-SNARKs 化等升级又仅是锦上添花。整个区块链行业都在等龙二以太坊交出一份满意的 layer2 答卷,然而截止目前,layer2 并没有承载以太坊的「增长」预期。

2)实在讲,Rollups 能从 Plasma、Validium 甚至平行链等多种扩展方案中脱颖而出,全在于 Rollups 采纳了一种执行和状态、结算等分层处理的主次链组合交互范式。正常逻辑下,layer2 在确立一种和主网交互的安全共识之后,接下来就该强化并放大执行层上的性能处理优势,给以太坊主网输入增量用户和生态才对。

然而事实是,大部分 layer2 却选择了进行商业叙事级别的叠杠杆套娃,走 Stack 战略拉同盟,共享组件牵入 layer3 应用链,还有 Rollup as a Service、DA as a Service、甚至 AVS as a Service 等等。这些乍一看能无限放大 layer2 商业和叙事想象空间的策略,都只能更长期叠加市场的预期杠杆,在扩大应用生态和赋能币价等方面并不能立竿见影。

3)很长一段时间,总有人嘲笑以太坊 Gas 费 1Gwei,以此来讥讽以太坊 layer2 战略方向的失败,但换个角度看,这何尝不是以太坊靠 layer2 解决拥堵、Gas 费高等问题的阶段性成功?只不过,糟糕的是 layer2 不仅没有以太坊带来预期的巨大生态和交易量,甚至还分流了一部分流量出走了。

实际上,layer2 在解决以太坊性能不足能力上算成功的,OP-Rollup 和 ZK-Rollup 阵营的竞争内卷也到达的白热化的程度,但选阵营搞 infra 而非纯应用创新暴露了以太坊开发者社区一个很尴尬的现状:过度依赖 VC 融资驱动发币而并非真正的价值创新。

尽管这是 web3 行业流入开发者人才越多,以及 VC 的资金流入趋多,进而竞争内卷加剧的直接结果。虽然创业门槛变高本来可以是市场趋于成熟的表现,在 Crypto 早期阶段,过度的内卷则成了项目高 FDV 扼杀创新的始作俑者。试想一个项目顶着巨大的 FDV,一切努力只为快速 Go to Market,怎么会有时间来沉淀价值创新。而 to VC 最有效的就是堆叠 B 端的商业叙事,C 端应用这类紧迫但却不性感的方向则一直不温不火。所以,才让市场感知到 infra> application 的失衡吧。

4)尽管,以太坊杀手的性感叙事已经在上一轮牛市中被证伪了,但这一轮 Solana、Sui、Aptos、Sei 等高性能公链都直戳以太坊 EVM 的「低性能」软肋。虽然都不再喊着杀死以太坊,但不可否认它们在性能上的高并发和特殊 Move 语言安全机制等层面确实能冲击到以太坊,尤其是可能成为新一代 web3 应用生态滋生的沃土,比如:DePIN、大型游戏、intent 交易、AI Agent 等等。

这是我认为新一代高性能公链最大的机会,不再堆叠 infra 预期,直接凭应用崛起来向以太坊宣战。

或者说根本就无需宣战,用模块化思想把以太坊归置到「结算层」的单薄叙事上,用新模块化执行层,DA 层、Unified 流动性层等对对以太坊过去建立的话语权体系进行重构,不也是一种竞合成功?对其他链是,对以太坊又何尝不是,然而,这是我在其他高性能链或模块化、链抽象链上看到的趋向,但似乎以太坊还只是「被动挨打」的姿态,即使在 ETF 这等超前性利好的前提下,也没能放下架子来应对。

5)很多人还在对另一次 DeFi Summer 抱有期待,但反思以太坊 layer2 的不及预期,我很无奈的接受了,DeFi Summer 或许永不复来的事实。 @VitalikButerin 自己也很清楚,以太坊最大的困局可能就是过度的金融属性,DeFi 这种承载金融属性的完美载体,既往成功经验和 DeFi 组合的无限套娃属性都让它天然契合人的投机偏好。以太坊生态此刻要考虑的不是重塑 DeFi Summer,而恰恰是走出纯 DeFi 文化阴霾。

上一轮牛市横空出世的 NFT,OpenSea 由盛转衰也都未曾完全嵌套进 DeFi 框架内,但这并不影响 NFT 带领上一轮以太坊走出超强牛市,这一轮 PolyMarket 去中心化预测市场被重视,虽然并非新玩法,也不知道能不能掀起新生机,但好在,它也并非纯 DeFi、或者说已经扩展重构了 DeFi。如何把以太坊最大可能向 web2 世界融合,脱虚向实,才是大家应该真正预期的新 Summer 所在。

以上。

Note:作为一个长期的以太坊 Holder,真心盼望以太坊能够走出内忧外患的至难时刻。但还是想强调,以太坊生态汇聚了最大规模的 Geeker,也是对创新最敏感的领地,只要市场走出当下困局,相信以太坊还会是力挽狂澜最靓的仔。

说明: 比推所有文章只代表作者观点,不构成投资建议

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