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Vitalik: The next goal of Layer 2 should be to achieve fast withdrawals through the ZK system
August 7, 2025
CoinFeed News
Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that it's surprising that so many major Layer-2 platforms are at the first stage of security standards. The next goal should be to achieve fast withdrawal times (less than an hour) through a validity (also known as zero-knowledge proof) system. This is more important than the second stage. If native withdrawal times can be reduced to under an hour in the short term and to 12 seconds in the medium term, it will further solidify Ethereum Layer-1's position as the default platform for issuing assets and the economic center of the Ethereum ecosystem. To achieve this, it is necessary to abandon the OP proof system, which inherently requires a multi-day wait for withdrawals.