Sandy Peng | Co-Founder of Scroll — Building L2 Solutions Aligned With Ethereum’s Roadmap

In this episode of BeaconLAyer Podcast, Kenzi Morikawa, Sachi Miyasaki, and Diksha Wells 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 — Sandy brings a rare perspective on how open-source infrastructure gets adopted: the real-world constraints (including compliance), the importance of trust and credibility, and the practical decisions that separate promising tech from products people actually use.Expect an in-depth conversation on Sandy’s founder journey, the early days of Scroll, and the choices that matter when you’re building the rails for Ethereum’s next chapter.