Will Papper
@will
Rollups are only parasitic to ETH when they do the same thing as Ethereum Mainnet. As they become more customized and move away from “Ethereum but cheaper”, they’ll start to be additive. h/t to @raihan for the great conversation today
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The problem is that most chains just don’t do anything special. Sure they might have different backend tech, zkVM, based rollups, different stacks, more smart contract functionality but on the user facing side there’s really not much difference. It’s just annoying for them to switch and bridge to new chains all the time. We should only deploy new rollups and chains if they do something fundamentally different and can be abstracted away enough so that the end user doesn’t have to care about it anymore
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Will Papper
@will
Agreed that chain abstraction + real differentiation (not just vibes) is key for the success of appchains Part of this is due to the fact that appchains are currently difficult to customize. When tokens were Bitcoin Core forks in 2014 pre-Ethereum, there wasn't much token customization besides block times/block sizes/consensus mechanism. But when tokens shifted from Bitcoin Core forks to Ethereum smart contracts, innovation increased a ton thanks to the orders of magnitude improvements in DX Our bet via @syndicate is that making customizing appchains as simple as writing smart contracts will introduce Bitcoin -> Ethereum levels of innovation at the chain level. Putting together some demos now to demonstrate this in a "Show don't tell" style way
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