Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174
This week’s Unchained is my panel at Ready Layer One! We talk everything layer one with four key players and projects -- Illia Polosukhin of NEARprotocol, Zaki Manian of Cosmos, Rob Habermeier of Polkadot, and Arthur Breitman of Tezos — to find out how these projects plan to compete with Ethereum and attract developers and users. We discuss:
- What platforms they are building and at which stage in development they are
- How they differentiate themselves from Ethereum, and what problems they believe need to be solved
- How they plan to attract devs in an industry of network effects
- Whether or not Bitcoin and Ethereum are direct competitors
- Whether, in the long run, crypto will be more winner-take-all or there will be multiple, interoperable chains
- How they plan to bring new users into the space
- How they think the transition to ETH2.0 will shake up the existing blockchain space
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Episode links:
Illia Polosukhin: https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon
Near protocol: https://near.org
Zaki Manian: https://twitter.com/zmanian
Cosmos: https://cosmos.network
Rob Habermeier: https://twitter.com/rphmeier
Polkadot: https://polkadot.network
Arthur Breitman: https://twitter.com/ArthurB
Tezos: https://tezos.com
Near protocol on mainnet: https://near.org/blog/near-mainnet-genesis/
Electric Capital report on the number of developers in Ethereum: https://unchainedpodcast.com/electric-capital-on-the-coins-punching-below-their-weight/
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