Are L2s extractive to Ethereum? by Ren Crypto Fish | Devcon SEA
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
An in depth study of on chain metrics, fee markets, contracts, and wallets to answer if L2s are extractive to Ethereum Speaker(s): Ren Crypto Fish Skill level: Intermediate Track: Layer 2 Keywords: Layer 2s, User Research, Transaction fees mechanisms, debunking Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
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Ren is a Partner on the investment team at Electric Capital interested in decentralized finance, mechanism design, and on-chain communities. Ren helped build Codeslaw, a code search engine for deployed contracts across EVM chains and frequently shares research on on chain activities. Previously Ren was a quantitative researcher building algorithmic trading systems and strategies at large tradfi firms and assisted with public policy research at the Federal Reserve during college.