From Mainnet to Rollups: Understanding Layer 2 (L2) Staking

Ethereum (ETH) didn’t suddenly become 100× faster, rollups took the load. As of February 2026, L2BEAT shows rollups handling about 2.13K user operations per second, while Ethereum L1 sits around 33 UOPS, and those same L2s now secure roughly $32.77B in total value. In the Layer 2 (L2) landscape, staking has evolved from a simple […]