Ethereum 101 Explainer Covers Smart Contracts, EVM, Gas and Layer 1 Trade-offs

The value here is educational framing rather than market-moving news: it codifies the security-decentralization-scalability trade-off as the lens through which competing Layer 1s are assessed, which shapes how newer networks position themselves against Ethereum's base layer. That framing matters most for teams building outside Ethereum and for readers evaluating Layer 1 claims, since it sets the vocabulary of the debate. Whether the explainer's trade-off framing becomes the default reference point is the open question.