Are L2-issued tokens secured by Ethereum?
The truth is nuanced. While the entire state of a stage 2 L2 is "secured" by Ethereum equally, the guarantees that certain pieces of state are granted is different.
For example, canonically bridged tokens are guaranteed to be redeemable for the canonical token on L1. Externally bridged tokens do not carry the same guarantees. "Wormhole eigenlayer"'s security guarantees are adjacent to Ethereum's. L2-issued tokens provide no guarantees on their ability to be redeemed for any unique L1 token. Note that it is possible to offer redemptions for any L1 token, and that Ethereum does nothing to indicate which L1 token is "canonical" or "consensus".
So the answer is yes and no. A proper L2's entire state is "secured" by Ethereum, but the meaning that L1 state ascribes to that L2 state is not guaranteed.
This is not the responsibility of the L1 either, but rather of the holders or issuers of L2 tokens to know what their tokens really represent.
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