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ETHREX: MINIMALIST L2 WITHOUT THE TOKEN PROBLEM

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Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Layer-2 stacks are structurally unsustainable because their tokens undermine long-term developer incentives. Once vesting ends, core teams lose motivation, leaving bloated, hard-to-maintain codebases behind. Ethrex avoids this trap with a minimal, maintainable design that functions as both an L1 and L2 client and carries no token, enabling anyone to launch an L2 with a single command. Its open, tokenless model and forthcoming documentation aim to make Ethereum scaling infrastructure fully self-sustaining and community-driven.