About this episode
Bartek Kiepuszewski, Founder of L2BEAT | Ethereum Community’s L2 Watchdog | Tracking Layer 2 Scaling, Security & Transparency | Bitcoin.com Interviews
🧾 Optimised Description
Bartek Kiepuszewski, Founder of L2BEAT, joins Dustin Plantholt on Bitcoin.com Interviews to discuss how his platform has become the Ethereum community’s go-to watchdog for Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions — promoting transparency, security, and accountability across the rapidly evolving Ethereum ecosystem.
L2BEAT is a leading analytics and research platform dedicated to Ethereum L2 scaling, offering comprehensive data and objective comparisons of rollups, optimistic and zk-based systems, and hybrid scaling solutions. Bartek explains how L2BEAT’s mission is to help users, developers, and investors understand the trade-offs, security assumptions, and decentralization levels of each L2 project — empowering the community to make informed decisions.
He also delves into the future of Ethereum scalability, the importance of decentralized governance in L2 development, and how the L2 ecosystem will play a key role in enabling mass adoption of Ethereum and Bitcoin-compatible applications.
💡 In this episode:
• How L2BEAT became the leading transparency tracker for Ethereum L2s
• The differences between optimistic and zero-knowledge (zk) rollups
• Why transparency and data integrity are critical for crypto infrastructure
• The role of L2s in driving Ethereum scalability and DeFi innovation
• Bartek’s vision for a secure, decentralized, multi-chain future
🎧 A must-listen for anyone following Ethereum’s Layer 2 race, as Bartek breaks down how L2BEAT is helping to keep the ecosystem accountable and advancing the future of decentralized scaling.
🎙️ Host: Dustin Plantholt – Bitcoin.com Interviews
🔗 Bitcoin.com
💼 Featured Guest: Bartek Kiepuszewski – L2BEAT – Founder and Ethereum L2 expert, leading efforts to analyze, monitor, and ensure transparency across the Ethereum Layer 2 landscape.
Hosted by Bitcoin.com News Media
Feb 13, 2025
