In this episode of Blocklayer Podcast, Kenzi Takahashi, Sachi Shiokava, and Diksha Desai sit down with Sandy Peng, Co-Founder of Scroll, to unpack what it takes to build Layer 2 scaling in a way that’s truly intertwined with Ethereum’s long-term roadmap.

Sandy shares the founding story of Scroll, how she thinks about the L2 landscape, and why “just build” is still the most underrated strategy in Web3 — especially when narratives and incentives shift every quarter. We also get into what “community-first” actually means for an open-source zkEVM project, and how Scroll operates at the frontier of zero-knowledge research while keeping developer usability front and center.

With a background spanning research, business development, and project strategy — plus experience as both a startup founder and blockchain investor — Sa ...