On: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

[talldayo]

Testing a dapp off the mainnet is like ensuring your website works on localhost. It will find some issues, but it's not representative of how it will look in deployment.

In any case, for actual usage it should surprise nobody why everyone conflates Ethereum with money. No, your L2 chain does not qualify as an official solution.

[sainez → talldayo]

> Testing a dapp off the mainnet is like ensuring your website works on localhost

I would argue the exact opposite. A website will be deployed to different versions of different browsers on different operating systems. A smart contract will exist on a single distributed computer. It sounds like the actual problem is people treating smart contract development as cavalierly as web app development

[arandomusername → talldayo]

No, you can test transactions as they would happen on mainnet (tests with mainnet state). Or if you want you can fork mainnet and do your stuff there.

It's absolutely representive of how it looks in deployment. You can test transactions EXACTLY how they would happen on mainnet.

I don't get your second point.