Co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, Joseph Lubin has said that bitcoin and ethereum are the only sufficiently decentralized blockchains to be a base trust layer for applications.
Joe Lubin made this statement in an interview in Hong Kong FinTech Week. There are good competitors and there are good marketing projects, Lubin said. He went further saying, Tron is an excellent marketing project and others like it and some of these are not necessarily intellectually honest and not technologically strong or rigorous.
However, he did noted some projects to be high quality technology projects, such as Polkadot, Avalanche etc.
He said both bitcoin and ethereum are the only sufficiently decentralized blockchains to be a base trust layer for applications for the planet.
According to Lubin, to be a base trust layer, a project will need to issue a token broadly and equitably. The project will also have to raise or gather enough revenue so that it can build its project and continue to build it out and maintain it. This will also require a vibrant, large and growing community to be successful.
Regulatory compliance is a serious challenge which crypto projects will have to deal with. According to Lubin, this was something both bitcoin and ethereum didn’t have to deal with at its early times. He said if any project is hoping to aspire to be a massively decentralized base trust layer it will ill have to overcome the challenges but it will be very very difficult for even a technically very strong project to challenge the early head start and the massive network effect that Ethereum has.
The community behind the two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is gigantic compared to other networks. Just recently, some group of people founded a decentralized autonomous organisation DAO to market the ethereum blockchain. Though the activities of the DAO hasn’t been made completely public, it’s worth mentioning that Ethereum co-founder and now founder of Cardano Blockchain Project, Charles Hoskinson, because there was no consensus to commercialize the Ethereum blockchain despite the desire for Ethereum to be global settlement layer.
