Ethereum

Why do we need solutions to fragmentation on Ethereum?

Because infinite gardens have no walls.

3 years ago, at EthCC [4], @ayamiya described Ethereum as an infinite garden.

3 years ago, at EthCC [4], @ayamiya described Ethereum as an infinite garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWzCMqyyDDI

In discussing the infinite garden of Ethereum, Aya imagined an organically growing ecosystem, evolving through different seasons, with a broad biodiversity of participating creatures.

The image of “the infinite garden” is apt for describing Ethereum - a provocative foil to the “walled gardens” of the Old Internet.

A “walled garden” refers to a digital ecosystem designed to keep developers and users contained within.

Blockchains offer users, developers, and platform providers the opposite of walled gardens: open platforms for innovating, interacting, and transacting.

The walled gardens of legacy financial and digital rails prevent people from accessing the experiences they demand or desire.

The experience of sending money from one bank to another, let alone from one country to another, commands high costs and frictions because each financial ecosystem has walls and barriers erected around it.

The same is true of other digital ecosystems beyond the world of finance.

App stores impose stringent requirements on developers, restricting what apps users can access. These types of restrictions can offer users a more curated set of options - but keep developers from building freely &  gate users from accessing experiences they might desire.

Ethereum is an alternative to the tyranny of opaque, centralized control -- and thereby offers a path toward stronger institutions, more power and choice in the hands of the people, and greater protections for people’s freedom to speak and to transact.

Ethereum’s strength lies in its unity: the fact that any contract can call any other; any application can benefit from the liquidity and the users of the entire platform; any contribution to the infinite garden is for the garden as a whole — not a silo within it.

The unity of Ethereum doesn’t preclude healthy competition within it. In fact this makes it stronger.

Just as an infinite garden can contain many ecosystems, both living in symbiosis and also - at times - fighting for resources.

This is why we need solutions to fragmentation on Ethereum.

Infinite gardens don't have walls.