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cover of episode Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174

Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174

2020/5/26
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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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