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23) You could look at computer architecture, and programming language choice, and memory allocation, and multithreading, and tons of other things, and design a whole new chain where every decision was done with performance and cost in mind.
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24) There are costs to this! For instance, you lose the community and apps and users that make ETH DeFi what it is. But you get speed, and efficiency. And you get a lot of it. In fact you can get something like 10,000 times faster and 1,000,000 times lower transaction costs.
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25) And so now you're _really_ in a bind. Do you fit into everything that DeFi has built up, or do you solve the scaling problem? It's not an easy choice, and in the end there are ways to try to get the best of both worlds--for instance using cross-chain swaps.
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26) I’ve spent a lot of time recently trying to figure out how to balance these. And I’ve also spent a lot of time trying out all of the DeFi systems, and thinking about what the future of DeFi could look like. And I’ve come to two conclusions.
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27) The first is that you really do want the best of both worlds. That you want to get performance, but you want to be interoperable with ETH. And that you can do this, at least mostly, and so you should.
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28) But also, that you have to do something about speed, because if you have to pay $0.10 to change a single piece of information, and you have to wait 5 minutes for anything to happen, you just can’t do a lot of things.
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29) And as long as you have to make some change, there’s no point in half assing it. If you want to do something over, do it right.
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30)
@solana
does it right. Solana built their chain from the ground up for speed, and it’s 10,000 times faster than Ethereum, and 1,000,000 times cheaper. And that’s huge.
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31) That takes you from locked out of many features, to able to have performance that looks kind of like what you’d expect from a centralized product on AWS. All while being a fully decentralized blockchain.
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