Farcasters, what’s your spiciest crypto take? 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Mine is: Ethereum will not be the network everyone is building on in the next decade.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

In any competitive ecosystem, first movers only have an advantage if they can sustain a network effect, but consequentially due to the cost and speed, many applications rely on L2s. A second mover that can consolidate into a single network that abstracts the varying layers 1/2

and makes this simple to use for devs who have zero crypto experience would be far stickier & appealing. Think of the leap from breadboard computers into VLSI-based ICs. Ethereum’s design debt can’t be simply pivoted out of, meaning a huge upfront advantage for a second mover 2/2