Opinion: Why there is no "Ethereum killer"?
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The Ethereum community has always insisted on developing on a cutting-edge and adventurous path. In fact, most of us agree with the sentiment that if a better platform came along, we would gladly jump to it. However, even if some new platform introduces the features that ETH 2.0 is trying to achieve (PoS, Sharding, etc...), there will be a clear silence in the community, unwillingness to migrate.
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Polkadot
us vs. them"If you have been following the ETH community, you can probably guess a few possible reasons for this. One of them is how some platforms convey their wishes to the community or have already conveyed their wishes."Ethereum。
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One such example is Afri Schoeden pitting Polkadot against Ethereum - he is a core developer who, due to the commotion in the community about Polkadot being superior to Ethereum, will
His departure would cause unrest within the community, which lamented their loss and sympathized with the reasons for Afri's departure. However, this situation will not last long.
EOS
Just two months after the incident, an unknown group launched Dothereum — a fork of Ethereum that is being built as a Parachain on Polkadot. And while the identity of the person who did the work has yet to be confirmed, many have traced it back to Afri."Naturally, the community that had previously sympathized with Afri's departure immediately turned around, seeing him as a traitor seeking to create division within the community. And such sentiment has undoubtedly changed the opinion of individuals in the community on the entire Polkadot project."。
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You'd think Polkadot would try to avoid such damage to its reputation after seeing what happened to EOS. Because EOS has actually molded itself into a
Ethereum Killer
How effective is this marketing approach for them? How many people migrated from Ethereum to EOS? Personally, I know of a few people who tried EOS, but didn't have any network effects, and the people who stayed were mainly to make quick money from Block One.
Of course, EOS has also received a lot of attention from the Ethereum community to satirize it. From this incident, the Ethereum community began to really hate EOS and celebrate its frequent failures. If this were purely technical, the Ethereum community would actively mock other Delegated Proof-of-Stake platforms, but this is not the case - EOS waged a war on Ethereum, and the community united against the attackers."other, etc."
Now, you might be thinking,
There are millions of developers in the world, why does he keep focusing on the importance of these platforms taking developers away from the Ethereum community? Can't they take newcomers into the field?
Actually otherwise, the reason is very simple."secondary title"。
Killer DApp
This sentence has been circulating in the community for a long time, and it is considered to be something that brings blockchain technology into the public eye and at the same time breeds a wave of newcomers into this field. When initial coin offerings (ICOs) started really taking off in 2017, it was Ethereum's
Killer DApp
While others have raised funds this way before, it has become standardized on Ethereum and is easier to implement. Add to that the fact that people have raised tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in mere seconds (with no accountability whatsoever!), and you can now see why many people are looking at Ethereum."However, as the hype died down, we saw a massive exodus of people within the community. But quite a few stayed on and made greater contributions to the overall community around the platform."Killer DApp
Practicality
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Practicality
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existing infrastructure
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Battle-Tested
In theory, Ethereum may be technically inferior to these other platforms, but it has been live for nearly four years and has been tweaked in that time, addressing the numerous bugs and inefficiencies of the system running in production. And these other platforms don't have the same influence as Ethereum at present."secondary title"Fading Network Effects
green pasture"Yes". The question is whether Ethereum's scalability roadmap addresses these concerns before they do.
the answer is"Yes", but I don't think ETH 2.0 will bring this kind of scalability, because it will take too long to achieve, and it is highly experimental. So, at the same time, we have layer 2 solutions working to provide greater scalability to the mainnet, with popular scaling schemes like Plasma and State Channels. And those are great solutions, but what if we could combine the roadmap of layer one with the speed and agility of layer two development?
Services for developers in the Ethereum ecosystem. Each Elastic Sidechain is equivalent to a shard in ETH 2.0, with the Ethereum mainnet serving as the beacon chain (assuming finalized in ETH 1.X). And each Elastic Sidechain supports threshold signatures, which enable inter-chain communication (cross-shard communication) in the manner proposed by the ETH 2.0 specification.
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And they're not the only ones! There are many, many teams studying various styles of Plasma (Plasma Group, Loom, etc...), state channels (Connext, Celer, Counterfactual, etc...) There are many, many teams studying Plasma (Plasma Group, Loom, etc...), State Channels (Connext, Celer, Counterfactual, etc...) and other scaling solutions, their work will greatly improve the usability of Ethereum, This enables it to continue to attract more businesses and individuals as the smart contract platform of choice."secondary title"。
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