AC: L2 as an application chain is unreasonable for developers, and underestimates the infrastructure and compliance costs

BlockBeats news, on October 13, Sonic Labs CTO Andre Cronje wrote: "L2 as an application chain is illogical for developers:

- Almost lack of infrastructure support when deploying (such as stablecoins, oracles and institutional custody, etc.);
- No foundation or laboratory to help;
- Centralized architecture is vulnerable to attack;
- Dispersed liquidity and forced to pass through cross-chain bridges;
- Lack of user and developer communities;
- Spend time dealing with the above problems instead of applications and users;
- Eliminate network effects;
- Still requires a long transaction confirmation time (some suppliers are reluctant to cooperate with it);
- Developed alone (no cooperative team).

The application chain also seriously underestimated the cost of infrastructure and compliance (browsers, hosting, trading platforms, oracles, bridges, toolkits, IDEs, on/off ramps, native issuance and integration, supervision, compliance). In 2024 alone, it will cost 1400 $10 million, a large portion of which is recurring costs. ”