#以太坊大户持仓变化 Ethereum wants to be the operating system of the digital world? Vitalik Buterin recently threw out this analogy, saying Ethereum needs to learn from Linux — open source, free, ubiquitous, yet quietly supporting billions of devices globally. The community exploded over this.

**The vision sounds reasonable**

According to the plan, the Ethereum mainnet (L1) should become the foundation of digital society. Finance, identity, social, governance — all core functions requiring trust and sovereignty should be built on top of it. The Ethereum Foundation's goal is clear: make it the operating system of the internet, with value, computation, and consensus all running on it.

Sounds grand, right? Here comes the problem.

**But the backyard is in chaos**

Today the Ethereum ecosystem is stacked with 127 Layer 2 scaling chains. Theoretically this is good — each L2 is designed to solve slow transaction speeds and high fees. Reality?

The track is extremely crowded, but traffic and revenue are concentrated in just a handful of leading chains. Most L2s get nothing, with revenue plummeting and days getting harder. More painfully, so many chains actually destroy user experience — cross-chain asset transfers are complex, each chain operates independently, turning into data silos with no interconnection.

So the problem emerges: are these 127 L2s helping Ethereum scale, or undermining it? There's an invisible gulf between the ideal of an operating system and the reality of the ecosystem.