When reading about competing blockchains, it’s important to figure out if someone you’re reading values money or decentralization (and therefore individual’s digital autonomy once we enter the Metaverse). Polynya (Liberosist on Reddit) is in the same camp as me - we want the most permissionless, secure, and censorship resistant solution. As an Ethereum Dev recently put it they want to build in the MSIT secure, decentralized blockchain and as long as Ethereum is the only one providing that, they’ll keep building on Ethereum.

It’s hard to understand which protocols are the most decentralized and secure because blockchains have gone from being built for decentralization, to being marketing machines. No one really writes about things like the importance of state receipts for blockchain validation, how many chains remove those due to the storage overhead, and how users lose a lot of self-reliance when that happens. I think they largely don’t write about it because most users nowadays just want to get rich and don’t care about decentralization, but I hope that changes and people realize that we need a neutral layer to store digital assets that we actually own as the Metaverse becomes a real part of our lives over the next 10-20 years.