Ethereum Merge may lessen usage for other chains, says Nansen CEO: KBW 2022
Cointelegraph’s Brian Newar spoke with Alex Svanevik, the CEO of blockchain information agency Nansen on the Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2022 held in Seoul and mentioned subjects just like the upcoming Ethereum (ETMerge and the way it will have an effect on different blockchains.
In line with Svanevik, the trade witnessed a spillover impact within the final bull run. He stated that in buying and selling nonfungible tokens (NFTs), newcomers within the blockchain house did not need to pay hefty transaction charges of as much as $100 to buy NFTs within the Ethereum community. The Nansen CEO famous that this demand for NFTs spilled over to different blockchains the place the charges to buy NFTs weren’t as excessive as in Ethereum. He defined that:
“It will be attention-grabbing to see to what extent these different ones can proceed to have demand if lots of it was pushed by that spillover impact. You may need lots much less utilization.”
When requested what he thinks will occur to another blockchains after the merge, the manager stated that many could die off. “Many chains will in all probability grow to be a ghost city or ghost chains. However I do suppose that some chains will discover their very own niches,” stated Svanevik.
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Regardless of this, Svanevik believes that there are some chains on the market which were in a position to bootstrap their very own ecosystems. Citing examples, the Nansen CEO pointed to Solana (SOL), Polygon (MATIC) and Avalanche (AVAX). Nevertheless, Svanevik famous that there are extra chains with the infrastructure that makes it straightforward for builders to return into their ecosystems. He stated that:
“I feel some chains have managed to achieve escape velocity the place there’s sufficient infrastructure in order that they will proceed to develop extra tasks.”
Svanevik additionally in contrast blockchains to cities. In line with the manager, simply as cities want hospitals, regulation corporations and the media, blockchains want their decentralized exchanges (DEXs), marketplaces, blockchain explorers and extra.
In the identical occasion, 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz instructed Cointelegraph that the decentralized finance (DeFi) market has lots of room to develop in South Korea. Regardless of this, Kunz famous that there are challenges and limitations to entry, together with the lack of expertise in utilizing crypto wallets and understanding of DeFi.
