At first glance, rooting every Layer-2 transaction directly to Bitcoin blockspace sounds ideal — pure decentralization, full transparency, ultimate security. But the truth is, this design simply doesn’t scale. Every additional transaction competes for limited blockspace, driving up fees and slowing confirmation times.

As adoption grows, this friction compounds. Users are forced to choose between paying higher fees or waiting longer, turning Bitcoin’s L2 vision into a bottleneck. What starts as an effort to stay “closer” to Bitcoin ends up clogging the very system it depends on.

The future lies in smarter anchoring — systems that minimize blockspace dependency while still inheriting Bitcoin’s security. That’s the path toward true scalability, not just theoretical purity.