Short for “Layer Two”, L2s refer to blockchains and other modern scaling infrastructure which sits on top of slower more decentralized L1s. For example, the Lightning Network is an L2 on top of Bitcoin. Optimism is an L2 on top of Ethereum. Other popular L2s include Arbitrum, Polygon on Ethereum and Blockstream’s Liquid Network on Bitcoin.
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