TechFlow news: Kevin, co-founder of Metis, posted on X stating that every L2 should have a native gas token and build a sustainable economic system around it. In this economic system, value is anchored to the gas token, consensus is achieved through staking the gas token across all sequencer nodes in the community, and a contribution-based mining model can be implemented to share and distribute benefits among all participants in the ecosystem.
Without a value anchor, staking governance tokens to earn more governance tokens becomes meaningless. For an L2, staking ETH cannot establish consensus among all decentralized sequencers, as larger ETH holders could always disrupt consensus. Moreover, staking ETH does not provide the same level of security that native gas token staking brings to the L2.
