The Layer 1 vs Layer 2 distinction is what most developers wrestle with when thinking about scalability. What’s exciting now is how some new architectures are starting to treat scalability itself as part of the base layer, not an add-on. Imagine a Layer 1 that auto-shards and distributes compute (even AI workloads) across nodes, scaling becomes native, not outsourced. That’s where the next evolution of blockchain performance might come from.